| 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 10 of 17 in the 2009 Formula One World Championship
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| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 26 July 2009 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 ING Magyar Nagydíj 2009 | ||||
| Location | Hungaroring, Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary[2] | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.381 km (2.722 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 70 laps, 306.630 km (190.531 miles) | ||||
| Weather |
Sunny 25 °C (77 °F)[3] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Renault | ||||
| Time | 1:21.569 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |
 Mark Webber | Red Bull-Renault | |||
| Time | 1:21.931 on lap 65 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Ferrari | ||||
| Third | Red Bull-Renault | ||||
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Lap leaders | |||||
The 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 ING Magyar Nagydíj 2009)[4] was a Formula One motor race held on 26 July 2009 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, 18 km (11 mi) north of Budapest, Hungary.[1] It was the tenth race of the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship. The 70-lap race was won by 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton for McLaren-Mercedes, after starting from fourth place on the grid. The 2007 world champion Kimi Räikkönen finished second for Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber finishing third.[5] Championship leader Jenson Button had a poor race to finish seventh, allowing Webber to reduce the points gap in the championship.
Hamilton's win was his first since the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix, which was also the last time he had appeared on the podium. The result also marked the first time that a car equipped with a regenerative brake system (KERS) had won a race. Räikkönen's second place was Ferrari's best result of the season so far, but his teammate Felipe Massa suffered a serious accident during the second part of the Saturday afternoon qualifying session which left him with a fractured skull. The race also saw the debut of World Series by Renault racer and 2008 British Formula Three champion Jaime Alguersuari, who became the youngest Formula One driver in the championship's 59-year history, at the age of 19 years and 125 days, and the first to be born in the 1990s. However, Alguersuari's record has been broken since Max Verstappen debuted in 2015. He replaced the fired Sébastien Bourdais at Scuderia Toro Rosso.[6]
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- ^ "Hungarian". Formula1.com. Archived from the original on 2009-11-26. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- ^ Benson, Andrew (2009-07-26). "Hamilton grabs first win of 2009". BBC Sport. BBC. Archived from the original on 27 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ Cary, Tom (2009-07-20). "Jaime Alguersuari set to become youngest ever Formula One driver". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2010-05-29. Retrieved 2009-07-23.