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Button leads Brawn's sweep
By Alan Baldwin
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 29 - 03 - 2009

Briton Jenson Button seized pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Saturday in a fairytale front row sweep for his new Brawn GP team.
Brazilian teammate Rubens Barrichello will line up alongside Button in Sunday's race in a remarkable turnaround for a team which was fighting for its Formula One survival earlier this year.
Germany's Sebastian Vettel, preparing for his first race with Red Bull after moving up from sister team Toro Rosso, shared the second row with Poland's Robert Kubica for BMW-Sauber.
Germany's Nico Rosberg qualified fifth for Williams while Australian Mark Webber starts eighth for Red Bull.
The pole was Button's first in Formula One since the 2006 Australian Grand Prix, when he was driving for now-departed Honda.
Mercedes-engined Brawn, which has emerged phoenix-like from the ashes of Honda, will be the first to start its debut race on pole position since the March team in the 1970 South African Grand Prix.
It will also be the first time in 38 races the field will line up without either a Ferrari or a McLaren on the front row.
Button, a race winner for Honda in 2006, scored only three points in 18 races last year and his career looked to be heading for the scrapheap when Honda announced in December that it was pulling out due to the credit crunch.
“The last five or six months for both of us have been so tough,” said Button. “Going from not having a drive or any future in racing to putting it on pole here is just amazing, it really is. This is where we deserve to be I think after the tough times we've had.”
Barrichello agreed, with a smile that lit up the post-qualifying news conference.
“Everyone who has touched this car needs a credit because it's a really great car,” said the Brazilian.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, in his first race as Formula One's youngest champion, will start 18th after a gearbox failure kept him in the garage from the end of the first session.
The 24-year-old would have been last but he moved up two places when stewards excluded Toyota's Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock from the classification after ruling that their cars' rear wings were too flexible. Glock had been sixth with Trulli eighth.
Hamilton's Finnish teammate Heikki Kovalainen lines up 12th on a grid turned upside down by the sport's radical new regulations.
Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa, last year's overall runner-up, will start sixth with 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen seventh after the Toyota drivers' exclusion.


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