My season review of 2009!
Quote of the season:
“It’s right for me as a man to stand in front of you all and put my hands up. I can’t tell you how sorry I am. But I’m not a liar”. Hamilton about his mistake in the Australian GP. He mislead the stewards over how he come to finish 3rd. After that his relationship with the press, who had criticised him, wasn’t the best, but he knew he had been unfairly criticised because he had acted under instructions from the team.The scandal of the season:
News broke in the mid-season that Renault asked Nelson Piquet Jnr to crash at Singapore GP of 2008 to help his team-mate Fernando Alonso to win the race. As an excuse Flavio Briatore said that Piquet was so useless that he crashed all the time. In the end Renault pleaded guilty and Briatore and his no2 Pat Symonds were banned from the sport.
The nearly man of the season:
Schumacher “almost” return to F1, after Massa’s accident the 1st name that come to everyone’s mind to replace him was Michael Schumacher. And Schumacher actually confirm his presence as Kimi’s new Team-mate for the 2sd part of the season but the medical exams didn’t let Michael’s return, it seems that the champion had an accident of motorbike and injured his neck! Some have suggested he bottled it, the true is that nobody know for sure if Schummy could keep up with the rest of the drivers on the grid after 3 years off!
The funniest moment of the season:
I got two, 1st Button on the GP of Monaco, he won the race and went to the Box pit where the drivers put theirs cars in the end of the race but in Monaco the 1st 3 drivers got to drive the car until the podium and as Button “wrong” the way he had to run until the podium, very funny though and to make it even more funny he bows twice in front of Prince Albert. That's what winning the Monaco GP does to the senses.The other funniest moment was in Hungary after Massa’s accident the Qualifying continue but in the end no one knew who had the pole position and Fernando Alonso were asking to everyone for their lap times….
Brazilian GP, Where everyone expected, after Barrichelo’s pole, the prolongation of the title’s decision for the last race, with lot’s of luck for Button and unlucky for Barrichello, Button did it, he grab the championship with 1 race left to the end!
Valencia. Just scrap it, please. There is no overtaking, no atmosphere and no boats in the marina. Pathetic. Far from being the “Spanish Monaco”!The best team of the season:
Brawn GP – It was the 1st in the Constructor standings with 18.5 points ahead of Red Bull, they surprise everyone in the beginning of the season they were one step forward in front of everyone so theirs nothing else to say, they are the champions and they deserve it!!!!
The worst team of the season:
Scuderia Ferrari – I feel bad for saying this but it’s true Ferrari had the worst car in the grid and we didn’t saw to many improvements during the season! And the way they threaded Kimi Raikkonen was very stupid and they let themselves buy for Santander and fired the fastest driver on the Grid to bring Alonso to their team.
“Look-How-Bad-You-Are” as the media called to Luca Badoer, I actually find him a nice guy but a nice guy doesn’t mean a good driver! Well I cannot call him a bad driver cause the car sucks, but, yeah, he was the worst driver of the season, but I don’t want let Badoer alone in this prize, Fisichella wasn’t better, He had a good car for the 2sd half of the season with Force India that he could reach good results as he did in Spa but he made a huge mistake when went to replace Badoer! But I understand every driver’s dream is drive for Ferrari.
Well some says Button, some say Vettel, for me the bad asses of this season were Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen. If they had Button’s and Vettel’s car they could done the same or even better, but this two ex-World Champions had a tough 1sd half of the season and they manage to come back and score a few podiums. So Hamilton had 2 victories in Hungary and Singapore and he actually pull of a few pole positions! And Kimi Raikkonen he had the worst car of the grid during all season and he pulled of a great victory in Spa (The King of Spa) and scores a few podiums for Ferrari being the only driver to score points for the team, which was 4th in the Constructors championship, 1 point behind Mclaren! Without any doubt Raikkonen and Hamilton are the best drivers on the Grid!!
