2009 Italian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 13 of 17 in the 2009 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 13 September 2009 | ||
| Official name | LXXX Gran Premio Santander d'Italia | ||
| Location | Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.793 km (3.6 mi) | ||
| Distance | 53 laps, 306.720 km (190.58 mi) | ||
| Weather | Mainly sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:24.066 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Adrian Sutil
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Force India-Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:24.739 on lap 36 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Brawn-Mercedes | ||
| Second | Brawn-Mercedes | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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The 2009 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXXX Gran Premio Santander d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on 13 September 2009 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy. It was the 13th race of the 2009 Formula One season. It was contested over 53 laps.
It was the last win for Brawn GP and for team driver Rubens Barrichello. Team-mate and Championship Leader Jenson Button came in second, completing Brawn's fourth (and last) one-two finish of the season, while the Ferrari of Kimi Räikkönen came third after reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton crashed on the final lap. Hamilton's crash meant the race officially finished behind the safety car, despite the safety car not picking up the leader. Adrian Sutil, who finished in fourth place, recorded the first fastest lap of his career, and the first for the Force India team.
Jenson Button led the Drivers Championship by 16 points from Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello, who led Red Bull's third placed man Sebastian Vettel by 3 points. Brawn led the Constructors Championship by 23½ points from Red Bull who were a further 48½ points ahead of winners of the previous race, Ferrari.
Vettel won his maiden Formula One race in the 2008 race for the Toro Rosso team, that made him the youngest driver to win a Formula One race, in the first race won by both the Toro Rosso team since they were formed as Minardi and by a customer Ferrari engine. The only other Italian Grand Prix winners in the field are Fernando Alonso and Barrichello. No Italian has won his home Grand Prix since Ferrari's Ludovico Scarfiotti won his only race at the 1966 race. Jarno Trulli, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Giancarlo Fisichella were the only current Italians in the field this year, with Luca Badoer replaced as Ferrari's stand-in by Fisichella. Fisichella became the first Italian since Ivan Capelli in 1992 to race for Ferrari at Monza, after terminating his Force India contract. Fisichella was replaced by Force India test driver Liuzzi.
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