2009 Formula 1 Grande Premio Petrobras do Brasil

[phil1993]

Driver by driver reviews: Brazil 2009 - click to enlarge

[Rachael The Great]

spot on

[Tom Vandenhove]

Good review. A bit harsh on some points but really deserves an 8/10

Keep up the good work

[phil1993]

I'm in a critical mood

Also, why was the podium made up of a screen? It looked horrible!

[Rachael The Great]

meh i have no idea. it wasnt even the same colour!

[phil1993]

Just thought, next year I'm gonna have to redesign the boxes with more drivers

[Tom Vandenhove]

... The trophy was horrible too

[Rachael The Great]

urgh. a trophy made from recycled bottle tops! a dream come true obviously...

[phil1993]

Tributes flow for Champion Button!

Gotta love Bernie's comment

Spoiler:

Prime Minister Gordon Brown: "I want to send my warmest congratulations to Jenson Button for clinching the Formula One drivers' championship today in Brazil, on the same circuit that Lewis Hamilton won the drivers' championship last year. We can be proud that Jenson is the 10th British driver to win the title. His performances over the season with the new Brawn team have excited Formula One fans in Britain and across the world, and we look forward to his continuing success in the seasons ahead."

Niki Lauda: "He did a perfect job in all this driving forwards and backwards to be a real good world champion. There's nothing more to say about it. Nobody asks in the end how you come to be a world champion - I did it by half a point once, but it doesn't matter. Just to be a world champion is the difficult part and he's done it."

Damon Hill: "Jenson's done a fantastic job. He was out of a job over Christmas, and really he didn't know that this season was going to happen. He's been there through all the pain and I'm really delighted for him."

Sir Jackie Stewart: "Brawn have done an amazing job and Ross a master. But it takes a driver to get the job done at the end of the day, and Jenson did it. Well done to him."

Bernie Ecclestone: "Well, he's not world champion until the end of November when the FIA announce it. He's got enough points, if everything else is alright, to be world champion and he deserves it too. He did a good job. All the question marks from the last few races, in my opinion, now have disappeared."

Colin Hilton, MSA chief executive: "Jenson has done a fantastic job and we are all delighted for him. For those of us who have followed his career as he came through the ranks of UK motor sport, it was always clear that he had the makings of a future world champion. The team have obviously given him the right equipment this year and he has delivered spectacularly. For the UK to enjoy back-to-back F1 world championships is a wonderful boost for the sport."

Nick Fry: "Jenson hasn't surprise me at all. I've always felt that he could do it, and I think he's just demonstrated to everyone what he can do, and the doubters who said he couldn't overtake or he wasn't aggressive enough, hopefully they're eating humble pie because he really has shown them under a tremendously pressured situation and the competition today and through the latter part of the season especially has been phenomenally strong."

Rubens Barrichello: "I'm pleased for Jenson as a friend and as a great champion, and if I didn't win, he should have won it, so well done to him. Jenson won it, and he deserved to do it, but he won it on the first six races. The second half of the season was mine. It was a true fight."

Mark Webber: "JB's always been incredibly consistent, but the problem was that at the beginning of the season, he was also blisteringly quick. They were running really well and he was really on top of the car, and a bunch of other drivers had a shopping list of excuses why they weren't getting results. At the end of the day, they weren't and JB was, and that's what made the difference. He's a deserving champion."

Norbert Haug: "Congratulations to Jenson Button and the Brawn. Ten months ago these guys were in danger of having no future in Formula 1. Today, they all achieved the biggest reward possible for all their hard work and effort. Well done guys - you wrote a fairytale story this season. Jenson is a worthy successor to Lewis Hamilton as F1 world champion."

[Tom Vandenhove]

Watching a 2008 picture, the trophy wasn't really different

[Rachael The Great]

it looks worse blue though

[ric.rios]

The trophy was made by Oscar Niemeyer, the most important brazilian architect. And they are made with bottles used by public on autodrome. The proposal was very interesting.

[ric.rios]

Most disrespectful 'fans' ever!

how can they even call themselves fans of the sport?

Joost, I really don't know how is your concept for sport fans. On end of race yesterday, all my grandstand (included me) applauded Button.

Rachael, the brazilians pay the most expensive F1 ticket in world. Yes, we are sport fans...

[Fergie1]

Like me, I know they don't mean the people like yourself who are decent f1/sport fans.
Just the scum/scruffs that do decide to throw stuff at drivers.

[ric.rios]

Just the scum/scruffs that do decide to throw stuff at drivers

I saw the video now. Well, normally who stay in the VIP areas are strangers who goes to Sao Paulo searching sex, Amazon and tigers in the middle of streets...

The generalization is one serious thing... It can't condemn all fans by the act of someone...