Motor racing-Team by team analysis of Monaco Grand Prix

MONACO, May 24 (Reuters) - Team by team analysis of Sunday's
Monaco Formula One Grand Prix (in current championship order):

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BRAWN GP (Jenson Button 1, Rubens Barrichello 2)

Button took his fifth win in six races, and third in a row
(all three with the same engine). He started on pole position
and led all but one lap. Barrichello started third and overtook
Raikkonen for second place at the start. It was Brawn's third
one-two of the season. Both drivers started on soft tyres while
others opted for harder ones that proved the slower option.
Button has a 16 point lead over Barrichello.

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RED BULL (Mark Webber 5, Sebastian Vettel retired)
Webber moved closer to Vettel in the championship. The
Australian started eighth and was held up by Kovalainen until
the first pit stop. Vettel, with the lightest car on the grid,
hit the wall near Sainte Devote after braking too late and
locking the rear wheels on lap 16.

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TOYOTA (Timo Glock 10, Jarno Trulli 13)
Glock, on a one-stop strategy, started from the pit lane
with his car filled to the brim with fuel after qualifying in
last place. Trulli started 18th and made two stops, which
allowed Glock to get ahead.

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FERRARI (Kimi Raikkonen 3, Felipe Massa 4)
Raikkonen gave Ferrari their first podium since the end of
2008. The champions moved up to fourth place. Massa was passed
by Williams' Rosberg early on after cutting the chicane while
trying to get past Vettel. He then climbed back up the order.

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MCLAREN (Lewis Hamilton 12, Heikki Kovalainen retired)
Hamilton, winner last year, started 19th after crashing in
qualifying and having a gearbox change. He then damaged his
front wing in a tussle with BMW's Heidfeld. Kovalainen crashed
out on lap 53 near the swimming pool. McLaren failed to score in
Monaco for the first time since 2004.

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RENAULT (Fernando Alonso 7, Nelson Piquet retired)
Alonso started ninth. Piquet crashed out at Sainte Devote
after being hit from behind by Toro Rosso's Buemi and shunted
into the tyre wall.

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WILLIAMS (Nico Rosberg 6, Kazuki Nakajima 15)
Rosberg equalled his best result of the season, ending where
he started on the grid. Nakajima crashed out two laps from the
finish but was classified.

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BMW-SAUBER (Nick Heidfeld 11, Robert Kubica retired)
Kubica retired after 29 laps with a brake problem, leaving
the Pole still without points after six races, after an early
puncture on his rear right tyre. Heidfeld hit the rear of
Sutil's Force India and was also hit by Hamilton's car. His
tyres suffered heavcy degradation.

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TORO ROSSO (Sebastien Bourdais 8, Sebastien Buemi retired)
The team's news release said it all: One in the points, one
in the wall. Bourdais started 14th. Buemi was passed by Piquet
at the start and then ran into the back of him later.

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FORCE INDIA (Giancarlo Fisichella 9, Adrian Sutil 14)
After their best qualifying performance yet, Force India
came tantalisingly close to their first point. Fisichella gained
four places on his start position and was just 1.8 seconds away
from eighth place. He was the last unlapped driver. Sutil
suffered grained tyres and had to pit early.

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