World championship leader Jenson Button made it five wins out of six races this season when he drove his Brawn GP car to a consummate triumph in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix.
The 29-year-old delivered a flawless performance as he and 37-year-old Brazilian team-mate Rubens Barrichello came home one and two for the second race in succession and third time this year.
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Starting from his fourth pole position of this fairy-tale season and the seventh of his career, Button pulled clear at the start and, apart from brief interruptions due to pit-stops, led all the way with a supreme performance of mature and well-judged racing. AFP
Button becomes only the sixth Briton in the 60 years of the world championship to win in Monaco.
Stirling Moss, Graham Hill, Sir Jackie Stewart, David Coulthard and Lewis Hamilton have all previously emerged victorious at the end of the world’s most famous motor sport event.
Now Button can add his name to that illustrious list of Britons, and at a venue where his apartment is just a short walk away from the far eastern side of the circuit at Portier. Telegraph.co.uk
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Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen earned Ferrari its first top-three finish of the season by taking third. Felipe Massa was fourth for Ferrari ahead of Red Bull’s Mark Webber, who took his points tally to 19.5.
Defending F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, the 2008 Monaco winner, was 12th after starting last on the grid.
Brawn GP leads the constructors’ title with 86 points. Red Bull is next with 42.5 and Toyota has 26.5 after its two drivers finished near the end of the field.
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Vettel’s championship hopes were hit by sliding into a corner and damaging his rear suspension, an identical accident to Hamilton’s on Saturday that left the McLaren driver starting at the back of the grid.
Vettel was involved in a battle with Massa and Nico Rosberg of Williams before his exit, as cars found space coming out of the Louis Tunnel II for rare overtaking maneuvers.
Rosberg finished sixth, Renault’s Fernando Alonso was seventh and Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Bourdais took the last point in eighth. The Associated Press
