Turkish GP: Mercedes-Benz in the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship

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Stuttgart, Germany, May 29, 2009

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.


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)

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