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Jenson Button Grabs Monaco Pole!

Pos  Driver       Team                       Q1        Q2        Q3  
 1.  Button       Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:15.210  1:15.016  1:14.902
 2.  Raikkonen    Ferrari               (B)  1:15.746  1:14.514  1:14.927
 3.  Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:15.425  1:14.829  1:15.077
 4.  Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:15.915  1:14.879  1:15.271
 5.  Massa        Ferrari               (B)  1:15.340  1:15.001  1:15.437
 6.  Rosberg      Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:15.094  1:14.846  1:15.455
 7.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:15.495  1:14.809  1:15.516
 8.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:15.260  1:14.825  1:15.653
 9.  Alonso       Renault               (B)  1:15.898  1:15.200  1:16.009
10.  Nakajima     Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:15.930  1:15.579  1:17.344
11.  Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:15.834  1:15.833
12.  Piquet       Renault               (B)  1:16.013  1:15.837
13.  Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:16.063  1:16.146
14.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:16.120  1:16.281
15.  Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:16.248  1:16.545
16.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:16.264
17.  Heidfeld     BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:16.264
18.  Kubica       BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:16.405
19.  Trulli       Toyota                (B)  1:16.548
20.  Glock        Toyota                (B)  1:16.788

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Get Ready for a Packed Weekend of Racing!

For you speed junkies you're not going to have to think this weekend!

Highlights include:

• The Monaco GP. Can Jenson make it five wins?
• Rally d’Italia Sardegna. Can anyone break Loeb's winning streak?
• 24 Hours Nürburgring. Will SJ or Vickie last the 24 hours? (Vickie doubts it)

For those of you who fancy watching the 24 hour race, we are under the impression that it will be streamed from here!

Happy racing!

Hamilton Disqualified From Australian Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton's thrid place has been revoked, and he and his McLaren team have been disqualifeid from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix after the world champion and his team were judged to have provided 'misleading' evidence during a post-race stewards' hearing.

The British driver had finished fourth on the day, but was moved to third after Jarno Trulli was handed a 25-second penalty for having overtaken Hamilton behind the safety car.

However, following the discovery of new evidence, believed to be radio transmissions from the Toyota and McLaren teams, the Australian race stewards convened a fresh hearing in Malaysia this afternoon to discuss the matter.

A statement issued by the stewards said: "The Stewards having considered the new elements presented to them from the 2009 Australian Formula One Grand Prix, consider that driver No 1 Lewis Hamilton and the competitor Vodafone McLaren Mercedes acted in a manner prejudicial to the conduct of the event by providing evidence deliberately misleading to the Stewards at the hearing on Sunday 29th March 2009, a breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code.

"Under Article 158 of the International Sporting Code the driver No 1 Lewis Hamilton and the competitor Vodafone McLaren Mercedes are excluded from the race classification for the 2009 Australian Grand Prix and the classification is amended accordingly."

Further to this decision, the race stewards have revoked the penalty against Trulli and he has now been awarded third place for the Australian Grand Prix.

Brawn GP Hit The Ground Running

After last week's annoucement that Ross Brawn has taken management of the former Honda team, keeping race drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, the team have made a great start at Barcelona.

Button set the forth fastest time of the day with a 1.21.1.

Button was the talking point of the day after spending much of it at the top of the timesheets.

Just four days after the former Honda Racing outfit were given the green light to continue in F1, Button was consistently fast as he made his return to the cockpit for the first time since the end of last year.

The Brawn GP car caused a few raised eyebrows up and down the pitlane too, thanks to the design of its diffuser and some aero tweaks at the front end of the car.