What are your favourite moments of the season?

Jack Sargeant On November - 7 - 2009

This post is a place where we can put all our favourite moments of the 2009 season. I have set the ball rolling with a few of my faves below. Leave a comment on the bottom of this page to give your suggestions and they will be added to this post.

My favourite moments

Jenson Button wins in Melbourne

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvoxqcVQY4A]

This has to be one of the most memorable moments of the season. We all had no idea what was coming. Button had gone from a backmarker in previous years (which is where we expected him to be in 2009) to race winner at the first race of the season. It was a simply incredible moment.

Jenson Button: “We are the champions!”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBtOt6RlmzQ]

This moment encapsulated all of the excitement of everyone in Britain, we had another World Champion, and he was as excited as every single one of us.

Post race scenes after Jenson Button wins the World Championship in Brazil

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg0_3jp0Shw]

Not only had he drove a fantastic race finishing 5th after lining up 14th on the grid but he also had a World Championship waiting for him at the end of the race. He really did not know what to do with himself and ended up kissing the BBC’s presenter Jake Humphrey during the interview in amongst the drunk Brawn GP team in the garage amongst hundreds of lenses.

Jenson Button vs Mark Webber in Abu Dhabi

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_pQKFpArTI]

It may have not been the most exhilarating race ever in Abu Dhabi in the final Grand Prix of the weekend but the battle between Jenson Button and Mark Webber in the closing laps under the lights in the simply stunning Yas Marina circuit certainly spiced things up.

Fernando Alonso vs Jarno Trulli in Bahrain

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43gQljni7yA]

Not all of my favourite moments involve the World Champion you know! This moment was in Bahrain early on in the season where Fernando Alonso executed a brilliant bit of nerves and overtaking nouse as he passed Jarno Trulli.

Lewis Hamilton wins in Hungary

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESKBLOCtAE4&feature=related]

After all of the excitement of Jenson Button’s success, we all forgot about our reigning World Champion Lewis Hamilton who was driving an appalling car, and was finishing in very low positions until Hungary that is where he popped out of nowhere in Hungary and took a superb race win, reminding us all he was more than just there to make up the numbers.

Jenson Button vs Kamui Kobayashi in Abu Dhabi

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr9KAQmMR64]

Good god Kamui Kobayashi has nerves of steel! In his first ever F1 race his fighting spirit showed through with this aggressive fight with Jenson Button who later branded him crazy.

Kobayashi’s fighting spirit captured the imaginations of a lot of F1 fans including myself and we all thought he had cemented a drive with Toyota next season until they pulled out. I then started a petition just to see how many people agreed with me and it was certainly more than I was expecting – on the Save Kamui Kobayashi petition we had over 350 signatures!