Interlagos - Brazilian Grand Prix 2009 - Race 16/17

FrankJH said:
Well done JRS :D
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I might finish that job yet. Still undecided. After all, it's a bit like kicking a puppy - after a while you just start to feel sorry for it :o

Awful thing is, I'm still waiting for a bizarre ruling from the FIA or stewards to come along and spoil the party....if that doesn't say it all about the current administration, I don't know what does :(
 
I think it's pretty clear now that sunama had Button totally wrong. He's the champ, and well deserved too given he's won significantly more races than anyone else and even won with a race in hand!
 
Missed the race but congrats to Button for becoming World champ...preferred if Barrichello would have won it but meh congrats to the fella for winning it...he obviously had the best car at the start of the season so pretty much had a head start on everyone else and by the time Hamilton got competitive it was a little too late.

Oh well bring on the next season and hopefully Hamilton will be back on top altho his old buddy Alonso will be in a Ferrari next yr from what i have read...cant believe that little **** got a drive there but then Ferrari want to be competitive next season i suppose.
 
Congratulations to Button. You can't however deny that had the teams been as equal/further up the development cycle as they are now, from the start of the season, he wouldnt have got a look in.

Ofcourse the world champion is always in one of the best cars BUT there is normally strong competition from at least one team (like mclaren and ferrari in recent seasons).

I'm actually slightly dissapointed that i predicted the constructors and world drivers championship correctly after the first 4/5 races :(. Never fun when there is one team thats miles better than everyone else, even it is only for half a season. I thought 2007/2008 was a much more exciting season in many respects.


role on F1 2010 I say!



P.S. Don't get me wrong having two british world champions in succesion is ****** awesome :D
 
Red Bull were pretty damn strong in the second half of the season.
Why do we have to caveat his championship? Hamilton only won at the end of last season because Glock's tyres were shot and Massa drove off with his fuel rig attached at Singapore. Don't get me wrong, I was screaming at the telly in delight as he won but Button has won with a race to spare and with a far better driver than Kovi alongside him.
 
Stormrider said:
no action to be taken over Sutil, Trulli or Heikkis incidents.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79597

Rather surprised by nothing being done with Heikkis pitlane incident. I thought Massa got a drive through in singapore last year for unsafe release.

But then again we know how consistent the stewards are.
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Breaking news: FIA to be renamed MIA in honour of favourable decision in McLaren's favour for first time in F1 history.
 
JRS said:
Again, LOL. As for Button versus Rosberg, we'll see if/when it happens. Personally, given your track record of late (didn't you predict RBR would be an epic fail as well due to the car being slightly late?) I think we might err on the side of having Jenson as favourite in that scenario
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Still waiting for him to eat the hat he promised to :)

Great race and congrats to JB, phone has been going mad with drunk Brawn people phoning :)
Luckily i know a lot of them and will return the call next season hopefully ;)

Well done JB and Brawn, thoroughly deserved.
 
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Replay - Chaotic start to Brazilian GP
Watch the first lap of the Brazilian GP, in which Jarno Trulli and Adrian Sutil's race ended early, and Kimi Raikkonen was caught up in a fireball caused by Heikki Kovalainen leaving the pits with the fuel hose still attached.

Highlights - Brazilian Grand Prix
Watch highlights of the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, where Brawn GP's Jenson Button clinches the driver's championship title in a race won by Red Bull's Mark Webber.

Brazilian GP - top three drivers
Reaction from the top three drivers at the Brazilian Grand Prix as Mark Webber clinches victory.

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Brilliant Button clinches title
Jenson Button sealed the drivers' championship with a sublime recovery drive at a dramatic Brazilian Grand Prix won by Red Bull's Mark Webber.

Brawn win title in debut F1 year
Brawn GP have become the first team to win the constructors' championship in their debut season.

Watch the moment Button won the title
Watch the closing stages of the Brazilian Grand Prix, in which Jenson Button finished fifth to claim the driver's championship with one race to spare.

Button crowns Brawn GP's fairytale
How Brawn GP rose from Honda's ashes to win the 2009 Formula constructors title.

BBC team mobbed by jubilant Brawn
The BBC Formula 1 presenting team are joined by the world's media as they try to interview newly crowned world champion Jenson Button and later they join in with the Brawn GP team's celebrations.

How the 2009 F1 season unfolded
A look back at Jenson Button's and Brawn GP's championship winning season.

Button joins British F1 greats
Jenson Button wins the Formula 1 world title in Brazil, becoming the 10th British driver to clinch the crown.

Jenson Button is F1 world champion
Jenson Button has won the 2009 F1 drivers’ championship.
He climbed from 14th to fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix thanks to a combination of a crash at the start of the race and several bold passes by the Brawn driver.

Brawn win 2009 F1 constructors’ title
Brawn have won the 2009 F1 constructors’ championship.
Heading into the penultimate race it was a virtual certainty they would beat Red Bull to the crown, as their rivals needed a pair of one-twos from the final race with Brawn not scoring.


Jenson Button
Backed by father (and former rallycross racer) John Button, Jenson charted a rapid rise through the ranks of karting, beginning with a flawless performance in the 1991 British Cadet Karting Championship in which he won all 34 races.

Countries’ champions
Button takes the world championship title from fellow Briton Lewis Hamilton. It’s the first consecutive championship win for a British driver or drivers in four decades: Graham Hill winning in 1968 and Jackie Stewart in 1969.

By a strange coincidence Button won the championship by finishing fifth – just as Hamilton did last year.

Britain now has ten different world champions, who have won 14 titles between them, more than any other country:

1. Britain 14 (Mike Hawthorn, Graham Hill (2), Jim Clark (2), John Surtees, Jackie Stewart (3), James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button )
2. Brazil 8 (Emerson Fittipaldi (2), Nelson Piquet (3), Ayrton Senna (3))
3. Germany 7 (Michael Schumacher)
4. Argentina 5 (Juan Manuel Fangio)
=5. Australia 4 (Jack Brabham (3), Alan Jones)
=5. Austria 4 (Jochen Rindt, Niki Lauda (3))
=5. France 4 (Alain Prost)
=5. Finland 4 (Keke Rosberg, Mika Hakkinen (2), Kimi Raikkonen)
9. Italy 3 (Giuseppi Farina, Alberto Ascari (2))
=10. United States 2 (Phil Hill, Mario Andretti)
=10. Spain 2 (Fernando Alonso)
=12. New Zealand 1 (Denny Hulme)
=12. South Africa 1 (Jody Scheckter)
=12. Canada 1 (Jacques Villeneuve)
 
Jono8 said:
Congratulations to Button. You can't however deny that had the teams been as equal/further up the development cycle as they are now, from the start of the season, he wouldnt have got a look in.
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Thats a pointless argument. The others have as much if not more resources to be able to do the same. It's like saying if MS hadn't gone to ferrari with 24/7 testing and developement and they wouldn't have won so much.

I think Brawn did a great job and the season showed they cannot compete in developement with Mclaren or Red Bull.

Everyone likes to get hung up on the extra time brawn spent on the car but seem to totally forget the car was not even designed and built to house a Mercedes engine and they had little data on that.

Brawn did a better job for the first 7 races then had to defend like mad against the developement of the richer teams. Having the long haul start to the season helped them as did a testing ban.
 
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