FORMULA 1 Live

0' Raikkonen, Alonso, Heidfeld, Nakajima, Hamilton, Kovalainen, Buemi, Piquet, Sutil and Bourdais make up the numbers. Barrichello and Fisichella were unclassified.

0' Trulli, Rosberg, Massa, Kubica and Glock complete the points.

0' Webber and Vettel with a straightforward job to complete the podium, six and seven seconds behind the deliberately-slowing Brawn respectively.

0' BUTTON TAKES THE CHEQUERED FLAG TO WIN THE TURKISH GRAND PRIX!!!

1' Button begins his final lap...

2' Vettel was told over the radio to stay back behind Webber as "Mark is faster". Make of that what you will.

3' Button must be dreaming already of a famous British GP victory. He's got time - he could park up and have a cigarette, were he so inclined.

4' Barrichello is out of the grand prix, having come in a few laps ago. Technical problems - and a nightmare weekend, the polar opposite of Button's.

5' Rosberg is past Massa after putting pressure on him. A bit of a silver lining for Williams.

6' Hamilton 13th after finding some pace on the soft tyres.

7' Trulli coasting in fourth with Massa behind him ahead of Rosberg, Kubica and Glock. They will be the points scorers if it stays like this.

8' He has taken half a second out of Webber in the last lap. Just don't run into him, Sebastian...

9' Is there any point talking about Button? He's probably about to lap Vettel... he's 20 seconds clear of Webber while Vettel bears down on the Australian.

10' Piquet behind Kovalainen in 15th after a last stop.

11' And Vettel is third and four seconds behind Webber after his final stop.

12' A horrible stop by Williams in the dying stages: a fumble has put Nakajhima 13th. You couldn't make it up.

13' Like Button, Vettel will be on softer tyres when he makes his final stop. Webber is on the harder compound - a small glimpse of hope for Vettel?

14' Kovalainen comes in from 12th and Buemi from 15th. Hamilton up to 14th with that.

15' Button and Webber both come into the pits. Vettel now second, but has to stop again, unlike Webber or Button.

16' Rosberg seventh after pitting from fourth.

17' Alonso goes from ninth to 12th after pitting.

18' And to show the outstanding job done by Ross Brawn and his slim team this year, check out the teams' table before the race: Constructors' standings

19' Massa in fifth heads a group which is quite close together: Rosberg, Nakajima, Kubica, Glock and Raikkonen follow.

20' Button's dominance is now unquestionable. These are the World Championship standings from before this latest win (ahem)... Drivers' standings

21' And for the second race running, the ultimate humiliation for Hamilton: being lapped by British compatriot Button.

22' Buemi shoots past Hamilton at turn eight, who really isn't having fun out there on the softer tyres. His last lap was four seconds slower than his best in the race.

23' Webber 18 seconds behind Button, who is coasting to the win in Turkey. Vettel seven seconds behind his Aussie team-mate.

24' Button now going consistently faster than Vettel in third. Not looking quite so good for the youthful German now. Race gallery

25' Piquet passes Hamilton, his friend and former GP2 rival.

26' Piquet must have had an incident as Hamilton comes out in front of the Brazilian, son of his former world champion namesake. They are 16th and 17th.

27' Barrichello has passed Bourdais and Buemi. Hamilton 10th after passing Piquet - who had been bearing down on colleague Alonso in the other R29 - then the Briton pits.

28' Vettel slips in seven seconds behind Webber and seven ahead of Rosberg.

29' Vettel stops for a second time to allow Webber behind him past. He is miles behind Button though, two or three corners.

30' Williams man Nakajima finally stops and resumes in ninth spot.

31' Button holding off the Red Bull more easily now. The supremely-talented Vettel has been rash in the past though so don't bet against some kind of incident. Team & driver profiles

32' The problem for Vettel is that he is on a three-stop strategy: he will have to get past soon and build a big lead to have a chance of the win. Glock passes Toyota team-mate Trulli - clearly the German has a different strategy which requires greater freedom...

33' Button runs a little wide on the straight and Vettel almost gets a shot at passing him... some drama is on its way, that is for sure...

34' As the lead is reduces to 0.6s, here is the order behind them: Webber, Kazauki Nakajima (yet to stop), Rosberg, Trulli, Timo Glock, Massa, Heidfeld, Kubica, Alonso, Piquet, Hamilton, Raikkonen, Seb Buemi, Kovalainen, Sutil, Bourdais and Barrichello - right on the rear tyre of the Toro Rosso.

35' Vettel slicing between 0.2s and 0.5s off a sector... ladies and gentlemen, we have a race.

36' Hamilton up to 13th. Go Lewis!! And Vettel now only 1.5s behind the Brawn... he is coming up behind him now!!

37' Fisichella on his weekend: "We changed all the brake systems - but it was actually worse today. I was quite competitive and then unfortunately the brake pedal was getting longer and longer so I called the team, and we decided to come in."

38' Over the last two laps Vettel has taken a second out of Button's lead... it is now 2.4 seconds.

39' Button therefore reassumes the lead of this Turkish Grand Prix. To read about this new-ish race: Turkish GP: Stats and history

40' Webber pits from the front. And he is followed in by Rosberg.

41' Button pits and re-emerges five seconds ahead of Vettel, having taken on more fuel. They stand third and fourth behind Webber and Rosberg.

42' Wanna see some pit babes? We know you do... unless you're a girl. And straight. Pit babes

43' Alonso is the first to execute a tactical stop while Vettel also comes in.

44' Button lead is now six seconds on Vettel. Barrichello, 19th of 19, is 10 seconds behind Bourdais.

45' Barrichello comes in for a new front wing and also opts for some tyres. His championship chances are looking slimmer now... Barrichello dreaming of title

46' Barrichello bashes into Adrian Sutil in the other Force India and loses a big bit off the right side of his front wing... that was an opportunistic move and the German should be angry that he tried it.

47' Hamilton is not happy, is he? Read all about it. Hamilton turns attention to 2010

48' Alonso comfortable in seventh between Massa and Rosberg. Button still going strong at the front.

49' Barrichello passes Hamilton and begins to contemplate Eurosport blogger Nelson Piquet Jr in 15th...

50' Giancarlo Fisichella had an early problem with his Force India and entered the pits - and never came back out. He is the first retiree today.

51' Barrichello and Kovalainen still at it before Rubens tries to come up the inside where there is no space - and Kova closes the door, causing the Brawn to spin!! He is overtaken by a few cars and settles back in behind Hamilton. It was good, fair driving from Kova.

52' Barrichello burned off by Heikki with the KERS again before the Brazilian sneaks past at the next corner... but the Finn fights back to retake position!!

53' Button's lead almost two seconds as Barrichello and Kovalainen seem set for more shenanigans...

54' Barrichello up to 12th and seeking a way past Heikki Kovalainen in the McLaren, but the KERS button comes in handy for Hamilton's team-mate.

55' Button laying down fastest laps seemingly at will as he builds a lead on Vettel, who remarkably won his first F1 race last season with Toro Rosso.

56' Hamilton has dropped to 17th while Raikkonen is now ninth after Alonso and Kubica passed him.

57' Webber is also past Trulli and now third. Hamilton stands 14th behind Barrichello, who almost stalled it on the grid.

58' BUTTON OVERTAKES VETTEL!! The German ran wide and the Englishman shot past. Race over?

58' Jarno Trulli in the Toyota is up to third from fifth, followed by Webber, Felipe Massa in the Ferrari, Nico Rosberg, Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso...

58' WE ARE GO GO GO!! Vettel and Button away well as Barrichello drops down the field!!

- The drivers are off on their warm-up lap. Earlier the air temperature read 32 degrees and the track temp 50. The track is dry.

- Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa, who is chasing his fourth successive Turkish GP win after taking pole position for the past three years, qualified seventh. Full grid and qualifying comments

- Vettel qualified with two to three laps less fuel in his car than Button, with the Red Bull tipping the scales at 649.5kg and the leading Brawn at 655.5. Button was fuelled to go longer than Barrichello (652.5kg) while Webber's car weighed in at 656.0kg: those two start in third and fourth respectively.

- The winner has always started from the top slot on the grid since the first race in Turkey in 2005 - so that bodes well for water-bottler Vettel. "We will try our best to keep this statistic alive but it won't be easy. I think we have a very good chance here, a very good car. Finally we made it; in the last couple of races we tried very hard and now we are ahead of these white cars."

- It is the German's third career pole position. He stands third in the drivers' standings, behind the Brawn duo of Button and Rubens Barrichello. Drivers' standings

- Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel starts on pole as alongside him Brawn GP star Jenson Button eyes a sixth win from seven races.

- Welcome to LIVE coverage of the Turkish Grand Prix from Istanbul Park.