Who won the 2009 F1 World Championship?

Jenson Button won the 2009 Formula 1 drivers' championship driving the Brawn BGP 001.

Which team won the 2009 constructors' championship?

Brawn GP won the 2009 constructors' championship.

How many races were there in the 2009 F1 season?

The 2009 Formula 1 season had 17 Grands Prix.

F1 Legend Sim/Seasons/2009

2009 F1 Season

17 races · Brawn BGP 001

The 2009 season is probably the most romantic story in modern Formula 1. Honda pulled out of the sport in mid-winter and its team came within a whisker of vanishing, until Ross Brawn rescued it for a symbolic sum and renamed it Brawn GP.

Against all odds, that team of survivors had designed the BGP 001, a car that perfectly exploited a loophole in the new rules (the double diffuser) and proved unbeatable early on. Jenson Button seized the moment with six wins in the first seven races and then managed his advantage.

In the second half of the year, Red Bull and a young Sebastian Vettel surged, but it was too late. Button and Brawn were crowned drivers' and constructors' champions in their only season of existence, an unrepeatable feat.

Drivers’ Champion

Jenson Button

Brawn BGP 001

Constructors’ Champion

Brawn GP

17 races

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Key moment

«The Brawn BGP 001: from a team that almost disappeared in winter to world champion.»

The 2009 grid, car by car

The 10 teams that raced in 2009, ordered by how good we rate the car. It is our own judgement, not an official figure: what it is worth is that the same yardstick is applied to every season since 1988, so you can compare eras.

#	Team	Our rating	Drivers
1	Brawn GP	98	Jenson Button · Rubens Barrichello
2	Red Bull	95	Sebastian Vettel · Mark Webber
3	McLaren	84	Lewis Hamilton · Heikki Kovalainen
4	Toyota	83	Jarno Trulli · Timo Glock
5	Ferrari	83	Kimi Räikkönen · Felipe Massa
6	Renault	82	Fernando Alonso · Romain Grosjean
7	Williams	81	Nico Rosberg · Kazuki Nakajima
8	BMW Sauber	78	Robert Kubica · Nick Heidfeld
9	Force India	76	Giancarlo Fisichella · Adrian Sutil
10	Toro Rosso	73	Sebastien Buemi · Jaime Alguersuari

How 2009 actually ended

The official final standings, from the Australian Grand Prix to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. This is the real result; the simulation is further down.

Driver	Points	Wins	Podiums	Poles
1Jenson ButtonBrawn	95	6	9	4
2Sebastian VettelRed Bull	84	4	8	4
3Rubens BarrichelloBrawn	77	2	6	1
4Mark WebberRed Bull	69.5	2	8	1
5Lewis HamiltonMcLaren	49	2	5	4
6Kimi RäikkönenFerrari	48	1	5	0
7Nico RosbergWilliams	34.5	0	0	0
8Jarno TrulliToyota	32.5	0	3	1

Button took it by 11 points with 6 wins and 4 poles across 17 races. 6 different drivers won that season, and the last Grand Prix went to Sebastian Vettel.

Official FIA standings via Jolpica (formerly Ergast).

2009, race by race

All 17 races: who started first, who won and from where, and how many cars reached the flag.

6different drivers won: Button 6 · Vettel 4 · Barrichello 2 · Hamilton 2 · Webber 2 · Räikkönen 1.

4different teams won: Brawn 8 · Red Bull 6 · McLaren 2 · Ferrari 1.

8different drivers took pole: Button 4 · Hamilton 4 · Vettel 4 · Alonso 1 · Barrichello 1 · Fisichella 1 · Trulli 1 · Webber 1.

13different drivers stood on the podium.

8one-twos for a single team: Brawn 4 · Red Bull 4.

9 of 17races were won from pole position.

1first-ever win: Mark Webber (German Grand Prix).

From 6ththe win from furthest back: Kimi Räikkönen, Belgian Grand Prix.

21 years, 290 daysthe youngest winner of the year: Sebastian Vettel, Chinese Grand Prix.

80%of starts reached the flag (270 of 338).

12 of 20cars finished the Australian Grand Prix, the race with fewest survivors.

2hat tricks (pole, win and fastest lap). Most fastest laps: Vettel 3 · Webber 3 · Alonso 2.

#	Grand Prix	Pole	Winner	Started	Fastest lap	Finished
1	Australian Grand Prix	Jenson Button	Jenson ButtonBrawn	1st	Nico Rosberg	12/20
2	Malaysian Grand Prix	Jenson Button	Jenson ButtonBrawn	1st	Jenson Button	15/20
3	Chinese Grand Prix	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian VettelRed Bull	1st	Rubens Barrichello	16/20
4	Bahrain Grand Prix	Jarno Trulli	Jenson ButtonBrawn	4th	Jarno Trulli	19/20
5	Spanish Grand Prix	Jenson Button	Jenson ButtonBrawn	1st	Rubens Barrichello	14/20
6	Monaco Grand Prix	Jenson Button	Jenson ButtonBrawn	1st	Felipe Massa	14/20
7	Turkish Grand Prix	Sebastian Vettel	Jenson ButtonBrawn	2nd	Jenson Button	18/20
8	British Grand Prix	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian VettelRed Bull	1st	Sebastian Vettel	18/20
9	German Grand Prix	Mark Webber	Mark WebberRed Bull	1st	Fernando Alonso	18/20
10	Hungarian Grand Prix	Fernando Alonso	Lewis HamiltonMcLaren	4th	Mark Webber	16/19
11	European Grand Prix	Lewis Hamilton	Rubens BarrichelloBrawn	3rd	Timo Glock	18/20
12	Belgian Grand Prix	Giancarlo Fisichella	Kimi RäikkönenFerrari	6th	Sebastian Vettel	14/20
13	Italian Grand Prix	Lewis Hamilton	Rubens BarrichelloBrawn	5th	Adrian Sutil	15/20
14	Singapore Grand Prix	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis HamiltonMcLaren	1st	Fernando Alonso	14/20
15	Japanese Grand Prix	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian VettelRed Bull	1st	Mark Webber	17/19
16	Brazilian Grand Prix	Rubens Barrichello	Mark WebberRed Bull	2nd	Mark Webber	14/20
17	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	Lewis Hamilton	Sebastian VettelRed Bull	2nd	Sebastian Vettel	18/20

Pole goes to whoever started first, after penalties. «Finished» counts classified cars that took the flag. Fastest lap is the race fastest lap.

What if 2009 had been raced 100 times?

We took the real 2009 grid (every car with its performance and reliability, every driver with his rating) and re-ran the full 17-race championship 100 times.

Driver	Avg. finish	Titles
Jenson Buttonreal championBrawn GP	P1.2	80%
Sebastian VettelRed Bull	P2	17%
Rubens BarrichelloBrawn GP	P2.9	3%
Mark WebberRed Bull	P3.9	0%
Lewis HamiltonMcLaren	P5.1	0%
Fernando AlonsoRenault	P6.1	0%

Jenson Button wins 80% of the simulated championships. Runner-up Sebastian Vettel manages 17%: with that machinery, the real result was very nearly the only one available.

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