F1: Jenson Button’s championship victory in photos
By Andy Darley
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Photos of qualifying, the race and the podium/championship celebrations at Interlagos, courtesy of Bridgestone, McLaren, Red Bull and Brawn GP.
- Felipe Massa, back in the pitlane
- Sebastian Vettel's title challenge ended in qualifying
- Top three in qualifying: Barrichello, Webber and Sutil
- Brazilian fans had high hopes of Barrichello
- Brawn and Button - champions in waiting
- Soon to be the ex-champion
- Rubens Barrichello on the parade lap
- Barrichello got away best at the start
- Kimi Raikkonen challenged in the first corners
- Giancarlo Fisichella evades a spinning Heikki Kovalainen
- Vettel had a lot of ground to make up
- Button overtakes Williams' Kazuki Nakajima
- Kamui Kobayashi proved difficult to get past
- Button finally passes Kobayashi
- Not everything went this smoothly for Kovalainen
- Barrichello's victory hopes ended after pitting
- Mark Webber celebrates his victory
- The moment Button knew he was the champion
- Felipe Massa waves the chequered flag for Button
- The Brawn garage enjoys the moment of victory
- Not the centre of attention, but still the victor
- The new world champion: Jenson Button
- The triumph shows in his eyes
- Barrichello, classy in defeat, congratulates Button
- Running past the podium cars
- Meeting the press as champion
- A toast from the Brackley boys
- Vettel believed he could winning: losing hurt
- Ross Brawn emotes (slightly)
- Jazz hands
- Not your everyday winner's trophy
- BMW's Robert Kubica took second place
- Hamilton's celebrations were a little quieter this year
- A podium at Interlagos for Hamilton
- One happy driver
- In great demand
- And the cameras keep on coming
- Weee are the chaaaampionssssss
- Button and Barrichello celebrate with the team
- He's the boss - you can't drop him
- Father and son celebrate the victory
- No-one came to Webber's party
- Flying the flag
- Great Briton
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Author: Andy Darley. Ex-journalist, fan of David Coulthard and anyone who ever drove or tested for Minardi and didn't say rude things about the team afterwards. Owns a Triumph Spitfire and hopes that, one day, it'll be on the road again. Andy has written 606 articles for us.
