Prior to the Turkish Grand Prix, Brawn Mercedes driver Jenson Button leads the drivers‘ ranking with 51 points ahead of his team mate Rubens Barrichello with 35 points; Lewis is ninth with nine points. In the Constructors‘ Championship, Brawn GP lead with 86 points and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is fifth with 13 points.
- Five Wins in the first six Grands Prix
- Third 1-2 Victory with the Mercedes-Benz Formula 1 Engine
- Jenson Button Won Three Consecutive Races with the same Engine – a new Formula 1 Record
Last Sunday, Brawn GP drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello took a 1-2 victory in the Monaco Grand Prix for their team, their third 1-2 in the sixth race of the season with the Mercedes-Benz Formula 1 V8 engine FO 108W. It was the fifth win of the year for Jenson Button and his third in a row he achieved with the same engine – a new record in Formula 1 after Mercedes-Benz was the first manufacturer to win two consecutive races with one engine in 2005 (Spanish GP/Monaco GP, V10 engine).
Giancarlo Fisichella drove his Force India Mercedes to a ninth-place finish in Monaco, missing the first point for the Force India Team by a narrow margin. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton who had started from the back of the field came home 12th.
A Mercedes powered Brawn GP was in the lead for 74 percent – almost three fourths – of all driven race laps of the season so far.
Mercedes-Benz balance in the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship (after six of 17 races):
- Wins: 5 (of 6) – Jenson Button (Brawn Mercedes/5)
- Pole positions: 4 (of 6) – Jenson Button (Brawn Mercedes/4)
- Podium positions: 9 (of 18) – Jenson Button (Brawn Mercedes/6); Rubens Barrichello (Brawn Mercedes/3)
- Fastest race laps: 3 (of 6) – Jenson Button (Brawn Mercedes/1); Rubens Barrichello (Brawn Mercedes/2)
- WC points: 99 (of 234/42.3 percent)
- Lead laps: 256 (of 346/74 percent)
- Lead kms: 1,172 (of 1,640/71.5 percent)
