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2009
2009-02-Sepang

2009-02-Sepang

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race is stopped due to heavy downpour

race is stopped due to heavy downpour

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Technical Director Giorgio Ascanelli

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race is stopped due to heavy downpour

race is stopped due to heavy downpour

race is stopped due to heavy downpour

race is stopped due to heavy downpour

race is stopped due to heavy downpour

race is stopped due to heavy downpour

race is stopped due to heavy downpour

race is stopped due to heavy downpour

Heikki Kovalainen in McLaren Mercedes pits

Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing

Sebastian Vettel in discussion with Red Bull Racing advisor Dr. Helmut Marko

Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP

Sebastian Vettel heads out of Red Bull Racing pits

The two Finns Kimi Raikkonen and Heikki Kovalainen walk to drivers parade

Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing

The annual season's start group photo of the whole BMW Sauber F1 team

Felipe Massa, Scuderia Ferrari

Bird of paradise Moko poses with two girls at the Malaysian pitwall, on right hand Jenson Button's girlfriend Jessica Michibata

Cheering Ferrai fans on main grandstand

Lewis Hamilton, McLaren Mercedes

Heavy rain causes the race to stop in lap 32, mechanics and engineers run to their cars on the grid

Another handsome Malaysian lady at Timo Glock's grid place

The nose cone of a Brawn GP Mercedes

Nick Heidfeld at BMW Sauber pits

Malaysian Ferrari fans show their braces

Nico Rosberg, Williams, in front of Trulli on Toyota

As the race is stopped in lap 32, team crews rush through the monsoon curtain to the grid

Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber F1

Nick Heidfeld comes to BMW Sauber pits

Kimi Raikkonen, Scuderia Ferrari

Michael Schumacher is still closely linked to Ferrari

Technical Director Sam Michael checks weather state at Williams pit wall

On grid shortly before the race, Robert Kubica puts his helmet on

Kazuki Nakajima, Williams

The brake disks of Robert Kubica's BMW Sauber F1 car are being cooled down whilst it is being reversed to pits

Timo Glock sprays champagne towards the BMW Sauber team

Felipe Massa, Scuderia Ferrari

Nelson Piquet jr. lifts off from Renault F1 pits

Mark Webber, Red Bull Racing

Brawn GP team's first group photo

Lewis Hamilton out of pits

Nelson Piquet jr., Renault F1

A happy Timo Glock gives thumbs up after a short but difficult race

Nico Rosberg, Williams

Felipe Massa, Scuderia Ferrari

Thoughful views of Mark Webber in Red Bull Racing pits

Timo Glock and Nick Heidfeld spray champagne towards the BMW Sauber team

Fernando Alonso, Renault F1

Mark Webber, Red Bull Racing

Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber F1

Still red lights for Adrian Sutil at pit lane exit

A true BMW fan

The fastest three drivers pose for the media after qualifying in parc ferme: Third positioned Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull (who is given a ten grid place penalty for accident in previous race), Brawn GPs polesitter Jenson Button and the second grid placed Jarno Trulli of Toyota

Michael Schumacher is being interrogated by his brother Ralf and Florian Koenig of RTL

The start field squeezes through first chicane, Jenson Button in front (behind Rosberg and Trulli who passed already)

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel gives an interview to TV presenter Kai Ebel of RTL

Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber F1

On grid shortly before the race, Robert Kubica puts his helmet on

The race is finished without chequered after 32 laps, Heidfeld celebrates his second place on grid already

Heavy rain tyres also for Alonso at Renault pits

The steering wheel of a Brawn GP car, of course FIA-approved

Lewis Hamilton arrives at McLaren Mercedes pits

A friendly Malaysian track marshal waves at the reflecting photographer Rainer W. Schlegelmilch

Massa and Hamilton march to drivers parade, being followed by Fisichella and Alonso

Nick Heidfeld guides the BMW Sauber F1 car through heavy rain

Wheelspin on slick tyres of Sebastien Buemi's Toro Rosso

Nico Rosberg is being pushed in his Williams car to fourth grid position

Kimi Raikkonen is the first to change to heavy wets at Ferrari pits in lap 18

Race stopped in lap 32

Mark Webber heads out of Red Bull Racing pits

Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing

Malaysia's national flag

Lewis Hamilton, McLaren Mercedes

Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing

Massa's Ferrari car on an unfamiliar 16th grid place

As the race is stopped in lap 32, the pitwall gate is being opened and team crews rush to the grid

Pit stop of Timo Glock, Panasonic Toyota

Pit stop of Lewis Hamilton, McLaren Mercedes

On grid shortly before the race, Robert Kubica puts his helmet on

Robert Kubica at BMW Sauber F1 pits during Q3

Massa's manager Nicolas Todt talks on the grid with Ferrari advisor Michael Schumacher

Pit stop of Lewis Hamilton, McLaren Mercedes

Kovalainen's McLaren Mercedes is being prepared on 14th grid position

BMW Motorsport director Dr. Mario Theissen talks with Willy Rampf, the Technical Director of the BMW Sauber F1 Team

Adrian Sutil rushes through pitlane

Nico Rosberg with physio Kai

Rain clouds build up above a tidy pitlane

A mechanic's goggles on a pit crew protective helmet

Champagne shower

Timo Glock, Panasonic Toyota

Giorgio Ascanelli, technical director of Toro Rosso

Nico Rosberg, Williams

After start Nico Rosberg on Williams passes the first chicane in front of Trulli, Button and Raikkonen, Alonso far left hand

Formula One promotor Bernie Ecclestone takes his VIP guests, Malaysian politicians, around for a walk on the grid

Peter Sauber, former owner of the Sauber team, now advisor to BMW Sauber F1

Sebastian Vettel puts his helmet on in Red Bull Racing pits

After the race was stopped by the race direction as undriveable in lap 32 due to heavy rain, the Ferrari crew convents around Raikkonen's car on the grid

Pit stop of Jarno Trulli, Panasonic Toyota

Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing

Being backed up by his father Anthony, Lewis Hamilton returns from press conference after his statement regarding the disqualification at Melbourne

Pit stop of Jarno Trulli, Panasonic Toyota

Sebastien Buemi's Toro Rosso lost the front wing ...

Nelson Piquet jr., Renault F1

Nick Heidfeld sprays champagne

Jarno Trulli, Panasonic Toyota

Nelson Piquet jr., Renault F1

Dry ice cools the brake disks down

Glock's Toyota pit crew is prepared for the next service

Felipe Massa, Scuderia Ferrari

Timo Glock changes to intermediate tyres at Toyota pits

Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso

Jenson Button, Brawn GP

Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber F1

Jenson Button arrives at parc ferme after gaining second pole position in a row

Physiotherapists have to carry bulky stuff around in these days, but Jo Leberer obviously manages averything as an experienced professional

Glock's Toyota and Heidfeld's BMW Sauber in parc ferme after the abandoned race, surrounded by their team crews during podium ceremony

Sebastian Vettel watches the practice times with his Red Bull race engineer Guillaume Rocquelin

McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh explains the disqualification of Hamilton to the international media

Timo Glock end his pit stop with a wheelie

Close-up of Jenson Button steering

Third placed Timo Glock cheers at his fans from podium

Felipe Massa refills liquid besides grid

Jenson Button zooms through pitlane on the way to his second pit stop in lap 22

Mark Webber, Red Bull Racing

On Sunday before the race, Sebastian Vettel is being interviewed by German TV presenter Ralf Schumacher who replaces Niki Lauda until his full recovery from a hip operation

Nico Rosberg, Williams

Nico Rosberg's helmet faces the grid

Cats and dogs rain at McLaren today

... which is quickly rescued by an alert Malaysian track marshal ...

Jenson Button celebrates his pole position

The Union Jack besides Jenson Button's name tags the Brawn GP car

On Sunday before the race, Sebastian Vettel is being interviewed by German TV presenter Florian Koenig and Ralf Schumacher

With modest assistance if his manager Hans-Bernd Kamps, Timo Glock speaks with a Toyota race engineer

The drivers greet from the drivers parade truck

Lewis Hamilton, McLaren Mercedes

The Toyota crew gathers around Glock's car on the grid

Fernando Alonso, Renault F1, flies over the curbs

Fernando Alonso chats besides the grid with his physio Fabricio Borra

Timo Glock, Panasonic Toyota

Lewis Hamilton is being pushed to McLaren Mercedes pits

Nico Rosberg, Williams

BMW Motorsport director Dr. Mario Theissen at BMW Sauber's pitwall command center

Brawn GP's Jenson Button in front of Alonso und team mate Barrichello

Pit stop of Kazuki Nakajima, Williams

The Ferrari pit crew tests pits stops and presumably the new signaling system with Kimi Raikkonen

Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP

Lewis Hamilton shows up on the screens of the media center on Thursday

Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP, in front of Renault's Alonso

Jenson Button waves to the audience

Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber F1

Timo Glock out of car, being caressed for third place after race was abandoned

Renault's lollipop with LED signals

Rubens Barrichello in Brawn GP pits

Lewis Hamilton, McLaren Mercedes

Sebastien Buemi, Scuderia Toro Rosso

Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India

After start Nico Rosberg on Williams takes first corner in front of Trulli, Button and Raikkonen

Ferrari mechanics in pits during qualifying

Former team owner Dr. Giancarlo Minardi, who sold his long time challenging Minardi team in 2005 to Red Bull CEO Dietrich Mateschitz, who established the Toro Rosso team in Formula 1 in 2006

Kimi Raikkonen signs a Ferrari cap

Monsoon above McLaren hospitality

Jarno Trulli out of Panasonic Toyota pits

Renault mechanics roll the car to scrutineering on Thursday

Sebastian Vettel heads out of Red Bull Racing pits

Flood light illluminates the waiting cars on a wet grid after the race was stopped

Jenson Button, Brawn GP

Continuous communicating Mercedes Motorsport director Norbert Haug shakes hands on the grid with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel

Nico Rosberg, Williams

Adrian Sutil, Force India

Ferrari advisor Michael Schumacher watches the action in pits during qualifying, his long time follower and Ferrari photographer Ercole Colombo watches, too

Ferrari advisor Michael Schumacher arrives at the paddock

Adrian Sutil, Force India

Robert Kubica comes to BMW Sauber F1 pits at qualifying's third part

Jenson Button celebrates his pole position

Jenson Button shakes his trophy for his second victory in a row

Sebastien Bourdais in Toro Rosso pits

Adrian Sutil, Force India

Common face Ralf Schumacher, temporary replacement to Niki Lauda as RTL TV presenter during his recovery from a hip operation, chats with Red Bull advisor Dr. Helmut Marko

Polesetter Jenson Button points out an important fact, probably his loyal sponsor

Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber F1, ends his qualification pit stop

Webber's car is being prepared in Red Bull pits

Timo Glock climbs out of the Toyota at third grid place

Jarno Trulli, Panasonic Toyota

Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing

Felipe Massa, Scuderia Ferrari

Robert Kubica and a fan at BMW Sauber F1 pits :)

Barrichello's Malaysian grid girl enjoys the late afternoon

... and his cousin on the manually balanced multifunctional amphibic oversize wing rescue vehicle

Renault's Nelson Piquet jr. in front of Nakajima, Bourdais and Fisichella

Nick Heidfeld out of BMW Sauber F1 pits

Sebastian Vettel in a thoughtful moment

Robert Kubica shoots out of BMW Sauber F1 pits during Q3

Michael Schumacher is being interrogated by his brother Ralf and Florian Koenig of RTL

Sponsors watch out! In Malaysia the branding of umbrellas becomes an interesting business on the grid

Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren Mercedes

After the race was stopped by the race direction as undriveable in lap 32 due to heavy rain, the Ferrari crew convents around an car on the grid

Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing

Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber F1

Adrian Sutil receives a fast service at Force India pits

BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica concentrates on a timing monitor

Lewis Hamilton, McLaren Mercedes

BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld in front of Lewis Hamilton, McLaren Mercedes

Michael Schumacher on the grid with Felipe Massa

Felipe Massa reports his swimming experiences to his race engineer

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