2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Qualifying
1.– Kovalainen dropped five places on the grid, after his gearbox required changing after a failure in qualifying.

2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Section Title: Qualifying
Table Section Text: 1.– Kovalainen dropped five places on the grid, after his gearbox required changing after a failure in qualifying.

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Grid

1	1‡	United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:39.873	1:39.695	1:40.948	1

2	15	Germany Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:40.666	1:39.984	1:41.615	2

3	14	Australia Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:40.667	1:40.272	1:41.726	3

4	23	Brazil Rubens Barrichello	Brawn-Mercedes	1:40.574	1:40.421	1:41.786	4

5	22	United Kingdom Jenson Button	Brawn-Mercedes	1:40.378	1:40.148	1:41.892	5

6	9	Italy Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:40.517	1:40.373	1:41.897	6

7	5	Poland Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:40.520	1:40.545	1:41.992	7

8	6	Germany Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:40.558	1:40.635	1:42.343	8

9	16	Germany Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:40.842	1:40.661	1:42.583	9

10	12	Switzerland Sébastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:40.908	1:40.430	1:42.713	10

11	4‡	Finland Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:41.100	1:40.726	11

12	10	Japan Kamui Kobayashi	Toyota	1:41.035	1:40.777	12

13	2‡	Finland Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:40.808	1:40.983	18

14	17	Japan Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	1:41.096	1:41.148	13

15	11	Spain Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:41.503	1:41.689	14

16	7	Spain Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:41.667	15

17	21	Italy Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1:41.701	16

18	20	Germany Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:41.863	17

19	8	France Romain Grosjean	Renault	1:41.950	19

20	3‡	Italy Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari	1:42.184	20

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Lewis Hamilton was the fastest in the first qualifying session by setting a lap time of less than 1:40.000 with a 1:39.873.

final_sentence: Lewis Hamilton was the fastest in the first qualifying session by setting a lap time of less than 1:40.000 with a 1:39.873.