2009 Brands Hatch Formula Two round
Pos No Driver Laps Time/Retired Grid
1 33 Philipp Eng 28 39:01.642 1
2 22 Andy Soucek 28 +0.494 2
3 7 Henry Surtees 28 +1.694 4
4 12 Robert Wickens 28 +3.000 7
5 21 Kazim Vasiliauskas 28 +3.271 6
6 17 Carlos Iaconelli 28 +7.398 11
7 25 Miloš Pavlović 28 +7.942 10
8 16 Edoardo Piscopo 28 +8.416 12
9 10 Nicola de Marco 28 +8.953 14
10 15 Mikhail Aleshin 28 +12.100 5
11 23 Henri Karjalainen 28 +12.666 15
12 3 Jolyon Palmer 28 +14.574 13
13 24 Tom Gladdis 28 +15.072 22
14 18 Natacha Gachnang 28 +16.636 21
15 8 Tobias Hegewald 28 +21.503 18
16 31 Jason Moore 28 +23.532 23
17 27 Germán Sánchez 28 +31.820 19
18 9 Pietro Gandolfi 28 +49.727 25
19 4 Julien Jousse 25 +3 laps/DNF 8
Ret 14 Mirko Bortolotti 22 DNF 9
Classification -- Race 1
Henry Surtees scored his first podium in the FIA Formula Two Championship the day before his fatal accident . Weather/Track : Sun 21°/Dry 33°
The 2009 Brands Hatch Formula Two round was the fourth round of the 2009 FIA Formula Two Championship season. It was held on 18 and 19 July 2009 at Brands Hatch at Kent, United Kingdom. The first race was won by Philipp Eng, with Andy Soucek and Henry Surtees also on the podium. The second race was won by Andy Soucek, with Robert Wickens and Mikhail Aleshin also on the podium. The round was overshadowed by the fatal accident suffered by Henry Surtees in second race. Surtees was hit on the head by a wheel from the car of Jack Clarke after Clarke spun into the wall exiting Westfield Bend. The wheel broke its tether and bounced back across the track into the following group of cars and collided with Surtees' helmet. The car continued straight ahead into the barrier on the approach to Sheene Curve, also losing a wheel, and came to rest at the end of the curve with its remaining rear wheel still spinning. This indicated that Surtees had lost consciousness, with his foot still pressing the accelerator. Surtees was extricated from the car and taken to the circuit's medical centre, where he was stabilised before being transferred to the Royal London Hospital. His death was attributed to severe head injuries, inflicted by colliding with the wheel
rather than the following crash with the barriers, and was announced later that day.