Your highlights on the 2009 season

[Dare]

The Brawn pleasantly surprised me

Fisi at Spa was a dream come true

Fisi to Ferrari a nightmare best forgot

The Piquet's,less said the better

Make Brazil the last race again,please

[Jericoke]

Topsy Turvy season.  Not a single race seemed to be a forgone conclusion (yes, there were some processions, but no one could call them on Thursday).  Plenty of different winners, and a few more could've been winners.

Brawn showing that there is still room for innovation in the 'tight' rulebook of F1.

McLaren proving you don't need on track testing to improve your car.

Barichello and Massa demonstrating the safety of an F1 helmet.  (The event isn't a highlite, however, the performance of the helmet itself was.)

[Willy]

Brawn and Button pulling it off.. A real highlight.

Kimi at Spa, proving he still has what it takes when he feels the desire and the car performs.

The Abu Dhabi track, very cool, Too bad the race was a tad boring.

Hopefully it's the last we will see and hear from the Piquet's.

[romephius]

For me, seeing the 'small' teams become giant killers.

Spa: what a race from Kimi, poetry in motion

Germany: Mark Webber's first win... forever etched into my mind

Brazil: Mark proving he's no 'one hit wonder'.

The rest of the season on track, provided some excitement even if the races might have been processions.

Rom

[FW14B]

The rise and rise of Brawn GP. 

Seeing Jenson Button prove some of his critics wrong with the title

Seeing Hamilton grow up due to the situation with his car

The early form of the Williams team, Nico Rosberg throughout 2009

Mark Webber's reaction after his first win, incredible

The camaraderie between the Red Bull and Brawn guys, makes a change from the whinging of Ferrari v McLaren

Seeing Force India upset nearly everyone for a couple of races

Seeing Felipe Massa walking around and driving again after his horrific accident

And... Seeing Kobayashi put every other 2009 rookie to shame.

[littledave]

This reason has been alright. Not as entertaining as last year or the year before as the racing has be, on  whole, very boring. The new track are a reall let down, they look amazing but have provided some dull racing.

Highlights:

Button, Barrichello, Brawn, Vettel, Webber & Red bull all helped in breaking the stronghold of Ferrari and Mclaren which is fantastic for F1. Indivual and team efforts have bee ace.

Kimi driving a sh*t car fast proving his is on of the best drivers out there and with above making up 5 drivers that have won races.

Downside: Poor qulity of up and comeing drivers. The quality of drivers is slipping and with 6 new seats available next year I fear that the grid will be diluted with more of"just another runner".

[Dare]

I'll second the joy of seeing Webber get his first win
this year and missing Windor do the grid walk

I for one will miss Flav on the grid and his reaction
when Winsor approachd him

I was more than a little disppointed that the promised
overtaking never happened this season

I missed France and will surely miss Spa next year

[Ian]

Seeing Ross Brawn lose it at Brazil, (thats not meant nastily) he was entitled to be emotional. 

[FW14B]

Seeing Ross Brawn lose it at Brazil, (thats not meant nastily) he was entitled to be emotional. 

Yeah, that was really touching, a nice moment in F1.

[John S]

Honda- oops- Brawn becoming the champs (mind you they got a bit of help with the double diffuser) that's what F1 legends are made of.

Jenson for taking the WDC ( about bloody time) with some brilliant overtaking, on the track not at stops, in Brazil at the best race of the season.

Vettel for giving Red Bull the self belief that winning was possible by giving them their first win.

The Red Bull performance at Siverstone, the boys were really on fire and left everyone else for dead!

Webber for his first win, - also about bloody time cobber.

Lewis for not throwing the toys out of the pram and dragging the team with him to 3rd in the constructors and himself to fifth, best of the rest behind the Brawn & RBR boys, after looking dead ducks in the first half.

Force India for breaking their duck and in some style.

Nico Rosberg for running as a one car team at Williams, in a decidedly midfield car, scoring all their points and beating Trulli's points in the No 1 works car.

Abhu Dhabi, not for the fairy lights on the jelly mould hotel, but for fairytale drive by Kobyashi.  He truly is the rookie of the year and made his teamate Trulli look a rookie.  

[aazz]

For me it was Webber's first, and second, win.

But most of all getting into the pits at the Singapore GP and getting some autographs and photos while there.

[cosworth151]

The return of the "independents" to the top. (Brawn, RBR, and FIF1 at Spa)

Webber finally breaking through, especially after his off-season injuries.

The departure of Max, Flav and Toyota

The announcement of the return of Cosworth

The announcement of USF1

And, of course, the Grid Game! 

[Scott]

Winning the go kart race in January 

Brawn winning both championships...I had hoped Vettel and RB would have, but Brawn was a nice consolation.

Max's departure (although we had to wait WAY too long...I always thought that FOTA should have insisted that he go immediately).  Unfortunately it was dampened by Todt's win.

Webber and Fisi's standout performances, most of the season.

Spa and Suzuka. 

Great conversations and debates on GP Wizard! 

[david1275]

It has been a hard season for a die hard Ferrari fan like me, and to see my favorite driver in Massa fall victim to a freak accident made it worse.  However everything else made it worth while.

Highlights:-

Jenson Button winning the WDC, he deserved it after his miracle start to the season. Especially after we all thought he and the team were down and out.

Brawn GP for the same reasons as Jenson. I anybody could do it Ross could. Pure genius.

Red Bull for there amazing rise to form, they have a seriously good team there and two amazing drivers.

Which brings me to Mark Webber. Over the moon to finally see Mark pop his F1 cherry, twice!!

Kimi for our one and only win in 2009. Pity the form could not have been kept up in the final race to score the vital 2pts need to take 3rd in the WCC and 5th in the WDC.

Kobayashi the rookie of the year as we all agree, hope he makes it for 2010.

.....and finally finding GP Wizard!!

Bye bye Max 

[Alianora La Canta]

Organising the karting competition in January.

Everyone getting the 2009 running order hopelessly wrong

Brawn. Enough said 

The BBC coverage 

McLaren and Force India's gradual improvement all season

Silverstone. First full F1 weekend I saw live and completely unforgettable - and the Force India/Fisi combo came 10th, which seemed incredible until...

...the magic week that started with Spa, took in a pole, podium and almost a win for the Force India/Fisi combo and and was completed with the Fisi/Ferrari announcement.

Kobayashi, the bright light among the rookies.

The announcement of Canada's potential return to the calender.

Massa's cheerful and, as far as I'm aware, complete recovery from his near-fatal accident.

Max Mosley's reign as FIA President ceased.