Opening Lap Chaos! | Extended Highlights | 2009 Brazil Grand Prix

Rio de Janeiro may have the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016 but Formula 1 rules in Sao Paulo second biggest city in the world and with one of the city's own sons starting from pole and gunning for the championship this could be another special day at Interlagos There are the four red lights and five and we're away in Brazil penultimate round of the championship Barrichello looking to get in there and leads well straight down to Werner it's the first one look at Räikkönen coming charging through almost a collision there with Sutil but Räikkönen in third but Barrichello has the crowd off their feet he's into the lead from pole Weber second Räikkönen into third Sutil fourth oh, collision there McLaren and that's Fisichella dancing under the grass there I think Vettel is in and Räikkönen's got a broken front wing Weber moved over on him and Kimi Räikkönen damaged front wing he'll have to pit with that one it's dangerous as much as anything and losing an awful lot of performance he's understeering all over the place oh, there's problems there as well that's Sutil and there's a Toyota there was that Jarno Trulli? it is Jarno Trulli so drama on the first lap here of the Brazilian Grand Prix but not for Rubens Barrichello's still out in front and also for Mark Weber third now is Nico Rosberg started seventh on the grid there is Räikkönen dropping back all the time a wounded car and he will definitely have to stop to all that country and the safety car is out as well oh, look at this Jarno Trulli there very, very unhappy indeed Sutil involved in another incident remember he was involved with Kovalainen in Japan and Trulli is absolutely hammering him by the way but while we watch that bear in mind who's ninth Jensen Button started 14th he's got ahead of Alguersuari Vettel's up to 11th Lewis Hamilton I see has come into the pits Räikkönen's in as well Kovalainen stopping too so Jensen Button into the top ten how has that transformed the race? and the good news here for Räikkönen is that with the safety car his incident was separate to the safety car he gets a new nose he's got the soft tyre phase out of the way and he can join the back of the crocodile oh, we got the fuel hose on Kovalainen's car oh, there's a fire in the pit lane as well Kovalainen's car he was trying to leave too quickly there get ahead of Räikkönen and Räikkönen I think his car should be okay he would have seen the flame ironically it won't have damaged the car of Kovalainen unless it's damaged the nozzle here we go from on board and, and fuel spraying all over and all over Kimi Räikkönen as well into his face, into the car so what's, obviously the exhaust pipes of Räikkönen's car set that fuel on fire there it goes yeah, it goes from behind him and all around him three abreast then at the back look, and that's where it started to go wrong the red bull there just clipping the back of Heikki Kovalainen Vettel just touching the back of Kovalainen and Fisichella having to take avoiding action there it is, but it was, he was in a McLaren sandwich I'm not sure he could have done too much about it this is going to be a chop I think from Webber Webber's moved, moved over and, it wasn't really a chop no, Webber defending his ground Räikkönen will say he moved twice this is Sutil versus Trulli coming through turn four and then up the hill Sutil as I recall was ahead of Jarno Trulli and there we are well, I don't know which bit of that Jarno Trulli thought was Sutil's fault it looked more like Jarno's fault to me he was coming down the outside and he's going to say you didn't leave me any space but, I think he was busy trying not to run into the back of the Ferrari that looks like an overreaction to me from Jarno Trulli Adrenalin pumping through he was unhappy of course he was hoping for a good performance many people tipping him for a podium possibly just like he did in Japan two weeks ago this is from onboard, oh and oh, Alonso took a big wallop in that as well so it's Alonso's car that was steaming at the top of the hill not the Toyota sorry, should have spotted that earlier so that's three cars out then Sutil, Trulli and Alonso gents, and remember the guys ahead are not going to be experienced at restarts they may not know how much they've got to warm the tyres safety car comes into the pit and look at Button's got a tremendous run out of Jungkau I think he'll be all over the back of Grosjean as is Kubica on the back of Rosberg here he comes as well down on the inside, Kubica coming through and he's got him up into third place and Grosjean defended heavily against Button so Button did not make that place he's there on his tail, you can see Jenson Button in the white brawn behind that yellow and white he's got a good run now Grosjean getting super defensive you'd think he was in the world championship well Button hasn't got a chance there but he's coming back, he's on the inside now good move here by Jenson Button, can he do it? another stunning piece of driving under pressure from Button into the points for Jenson Button but Grosjean's coming back on the inside now as they go round at the top of the hill wonderful move by Button, he's squeezed him there next up Nakajima brilliant driving from Button and I have to say feisty from Grosjean Button had to make it stick, outside, inside and then outside again here is Sebastian Vettel now behind Grosjean, you can just ahead see Jenson Button Vettel won't want to hang around as well through the tight infield section up towards Jungkau where Lewis Hamilton won so memorably at the end of last year and then look at Grosjean running wide, Vettel's come through almost like Hamilton and Glock 12 months ago, so great move there by both Button and Vettel and here comes Button again now sizing up Nakajima on the pit straight well if you want your champion to grab the initiative, he's doing it at the moment he's thrown the inside through that first corner he's got the line and he's got the place Jenson Button through round now, Kermit Hassall it's only lap 7, I'm out of breath already, brilliant driving all round and Button really aggressive we know that Williams is carrying a lot of wing and look at Hamilton having a move down on the outside and that's absolutely easy, the power boost button maybe for Lewis Hamilton, the kerb just whizzes through Jenson Button said last night he was incredibly down, I don't think I've seen him as miserable as that all season but he said I'm going out there and I'm going to be fighting and he is doing that absolutely at the moment Heidfeld's gone through past Grosjean Grosjean's going backwards really really fast, all the car just flying through here Hamilton went through as well here's Button again so Button then forced down the outside this is brave stuff from a man who needs some points to defend his world championship comes up the inside into 5, put a lot of faith in Roman Grosjean there Grosjean wouldn't let it go, came up the inside into 6 and Button just did a wall of death around the outside at any time he could have been touched and been out of the Grand Prix just as when he did and here is Button again, Martin, he's coming through on the inside of Kobayashi discretion there, just holding back, this is breathtaking stuff from Jenson Button so it's the 6th place, Button needs to be getting on with it, Vettel's not far behind them got a much faster car but all it needs is one little tag from one of these new boys and Button's dream will be over today Rubens Barrichello sets the fastest lap and remember if Barrichello carries on like this Vettel on the grass going into 6th and 7th Ferradura the horseshoe, but he makes it so he continues, just to say that Button if he finishes 3rd and Barrichello wins then Button would be world champion here's a replay of Vettel Vettel on Nakajima, Nakajima squeezes him onto the grass and brilliant driving there from Vettel kept it all together the race leader coming into the pits now, careful to obey the speed limits and his pit garage is right down at the far end, the final garage of this pit lane Weber does a personal best going over the line as Barrichello comes in and Red Bull then measuring exactly how long the fuel rig is on delivering 12.1 litres of the very best per second and he can get straight onto it look at that, Rubens has made his pit stop he comes out into traffic a little bit, which he won't be pleased with behind Nakajima, ahead of Sebastian Vettel so in 8th place for Rubens Barrichello and Vettel's going to attack him if he can coming through turn 4 and then starting to climb up the hill, 160 miles an hour through turn 5 which is where Sutil and Trulli came together and here's Vettel almost on the grass, and what a move there by Vettel past Rubens Barrichello had the momentum, tyres and everything up to speed for Sebastian Vettel what a move there, now Barrichello slips down down into 9th, the race leader Button having a look at Kobayashi, coming through on the inside has he caught him? Oh, he's gone through a little bit wide deep into the corner and Kobayashi managed to regain the place oh Jenson will be swearing inside his crash helmet at that one because he got the job done, that was brave but he just couldn't slow it down when he got there as Kubica pits from 3rd and is back out again worth 21 seconds, at least, quite penalising and also at the round of time he's stopped comes back out there behind Sebastian Vettel and ahead of Rubens Barrichello that's crucial, so Barrichello down in 9th at the moment behind Robert Kubica, who was behind him initially on the road good work there by BMW that's crucial for the World Championship that Kubica's passed Barrichello and of course with Webber going so fast and a decent pit stop he's, surely he's got a very good chance of being ahead of Barrichello where will he be compared to Kubica? Button's done it! Button's gone through he's got through, so Jenson Button, now up into 4th place let's go, let's go! ok, big push now this is how he did it on the pit straight yep, he went to go to the outside this time and duped Kobayashi a little bit and I think Kobayashi thought, ok, I think I've held you up enough and through he goes, I wonder if Kobayashi's getting a bit tired he was nowhere near as fighty on that one as he was and Button went through the pits a couple of times and we've got a Toyota has gone through as well Nakajima's gone through past Kobayashi Japanese honour at stake here Kobayashi's going, he's got track position for 2 he's not backward and coming forward is he? he's really holding his line there, he's absolutely on it and he's managed to hold him back but at the same time he's under attack from Vettel who's got 2 of them, a nose to tail now look at that, almost 3 abreast now as they come down towards turn 4 so Mark Webber stopping so will he be ahead of Kubica? will he be ahead of Barrichello? his laps have been brilliant it's quite a short stop so they're not going to fuel him too long to give him track position Jenson Button goes down and round here you can see him but Webber looking good at the moment through the Senna races goes Jenson Button but Mark Webber is still out in front here comes Nico Rosberg that's race over, that's huge frustration for them he was only hopeful of something like 6, 7 or 8 minor points but that's not good enough and Nico Rosberg out of the race hard to go on again so we know he's got to pit again before the end of the race because he's lost the final since and where's he going to funnel back in? looks like that's Grosjean there's Fisichella or is that Räikkönen rather? there's Buemi and Button funneling out now just between it would look like Buemi and Alguersuari, maybe in 11th place be careful of Hamilton behind he is a threat, he's on one stop oh there's Nakajima in all sorts of trouble bouncing through the gravel and that's at the end of the pit straight Kazuki Nakajima or is that? it's actually turn 4 isn't it so Kazuki Nakajima for some reason seemed to lose control, the front wing had gone there's a Toyota coming out of the pits then Kobayashi so the two Japanese got together and let's see if Kobayashi weaves on him, he does indeed naughty very naughty indeed and he could have collected him coming through on one of two cars there may be Liuzzi as well he can't do that in F1 this is Jenson Button as ever, tucked up behind somebody Sebastian Buemi this time a man who was running 5th initially Rosberg's dropped out so if Button can pass this one he's going to help himself to more potential points right ahead of them is Grosjean who's yet to pit woah, nice one through he comes on Buemi ooh, he almost got gathered there by Buemi now that's not good, you don't need a tap on the right rear suspension like that, you start picking up punches that was last of the late breakers wasn't it take that end of the pit straight, turn 1 and with those outrageous mirrors he didn't actually touch 33 laps to go and if the order is as it is Weber, Kubica, Barrichello, Hamilton Räikkönen, Button, Vettel and Buemi then we will indeed be toasting a world champion and his name will be Jenson Button I have a lot of vibration on the right on the right front tyre Affirm, you have to look after it 10 laps to go that's not what you want to hear is it really you've got to look after it look at the slipstream Hamilton's got on Barrichello now Barrichello goes to move inside and that's for 3rd place and Hamilton is through, it's got worse there for Rubens Barrichello he started from pole, he hoped to win he's not even going to be on the podium now it would seem problems there with the car and it's drifting away from Rubens Barrichello you have a puncture, you have a puncture Rubens you wouldn't believe this man's luck at Interlagos, you would not believe it the man who's led for Stewart and Ferrari and Braun and yet still things continue to go wrong engines letting go fuel feed problems or was it just running out of petrol and now this puncture for Rubens Barrichello and that's it surely for Jenson Button as one side of the garage attend to Rubens Barrichello's tyres Jenson Button the other side of the garage can surely start to believe look at Kobayashi then putting a move on Fizikela who was sleeping again by the looks of it, because Kobayashi has done him by, lucky he didn't run into him, done him by 10 metres in the braking zone Mark Webber how he would have loved to have been fighting for the championship right to the final race instead the predominant race of the season he won in Germany Felipe Massa would have loved to have won 12 months ago but it's Mark Webber's race just like it was Massa's race 12 months ago but where is the champion in waiting Mark Webber wins Kubica's coming through Hamilton's coming through the 2008 world champion will soon be greeting his fellow countrymen the first Englishman to succeed another Englishman as world champion, Hamilton's through we're waiting for Vettel through and now here comes Jenson Button the 2009 world champion look at the relief, look at the joy it's all now out in the open and there is team Button other constructors champions Jenson Button is world champion they don't believe it almost after qualifying yesterday, down in 14th his worst ever qualifying of the season and yet he's come through get in there Jenson, fantastic well done, mix one pick up rubber awesome job, unbelievable we are the champions my friends we are world champions world champions not sure about the singing but the driving's certainly been top dollar I don't have any doubts that he's a very worthy world champion, he's led the championship since the very first race he's been consistent he's been fast, he's got the overtakes done when he needed to do massive amount of pressure on him in the closing stages kept his head together and delivered yet to sign up with anybody for next year presumably he'll re-sign with Braun when they've stopped squabbling about money well a lot of talk before the race that if Barrichello won and went on to win the championship, why Baby Jenson Button was going to be released but there's the release there's the victory salute which means so much to him and there's a generous sporting teammate as well, perhaps knew he was always on the back foot because of his faltering start to the season remember after the Turkish Grand Prix the seventh race he was 26 points behind we have the unusual situation yet again where the new world champion is not on the podium he ran of course all the way down the pit straight at Monaco to celebrate that victory and now he's run into the arms of Mikey, his personal trainer you know I needed to make it happen the cars in front of me were all in the same sort of fuel load or a little bit heavier so I needed to make it happen I got past a few cars one on lap one and then I got past two cars the next lap and then I was chasing Dan Kobayashi and that guy's insane you know he's moving all over the place on the straights we almost crashed a couple of times I eventually got past him and for me that was the moment when I thought I can do this, I can get him to the points and finish well high enough up so that I can win the title here and I got my head down made it work, got past Buemi and here I am as the world champion