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2009 / BUTTON

A scrolling recap of 2009 in six acts. The champion, the constructor, the bump chart, and the race-by-race podiums.

ACT 1 CUMULATIVE TRAJECTORY

The points reel out, race after race.

Every line is a driver's running championship total. The heaviest three at the top are the ones who mattered. Jenson Button closed the year on 95 points, a 11-point gap over P2.

DATA TABLE · CUMULATIVE POINTS

Cumulative points by driver and round for 2009
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07	R08	R09	R10	R11	R12	R13	R14	R15	R16	R17
Jenson Button	10	15	21	31	41	51	61	64	68	70	72	72	80	84	85	89	95
Sebastian Vettel	0	0	10	18	23	23	29	39	47	47	47	53	54	59	69	74	84
Rubens Barrichello	8	10	15	19	27	35	35	41	44	44	54	56	66	69	71	72	77
Mark Webber	0	2	10	10	16	20	28	36	46	52	52	52	52	52	52	62	70
Lewis Hamilton	0	1	4	9	9	9	9	9	9	19	27	27	27	37	43	49	49
Kimi Räikkönen	0	0	0	3	3	9	9	10	10	18	24	34	40	40	45	48	48
Nico Rosberg	3	4	4	4	5	8	12	16	21	26	30	31	31	31	35	35	35
Jarno Trulli	6	9	9	15	15	15	20	22	22	23	23	23	23	23	31	31	33
Fernando Alonso	4	4	4	5	9	11	11	11	13	13	16	16	20	26	26	26	26
Timo Glock	5	8	10	12	12	12	13	13	13	16	16	16	16	24	24	24	24

ACT 2 CONSTRUCTORS

Two-car teams, one trophy.

The constructors' championship is a different game — both cars score. A team can win it with consistent doubles even when neither driver leads the standings. Brawn–Mercedes ended on 172 points.

DATA

Constructor championship standings for 2009
POS	CONSTRUCTOR	PTS
P1	BRAWN–MERCEDES	172
P2	RED BULL–RENAULT	154
P3	MCLAREN–MERCEDES	71
P4	FERRARI	70
P5	TOYOTA	60
P6	BMW SAUBER–BMW	36
P7	WILLIAMS–TOYOTA	35
P8	RENAULT	26
P9	FORCE INDIA–MERCEDES	13
P10	TORO ROSSO–FERRARI	8

ACT 3 STANDINGS BUMP

Position by position, week to week.

Cumulative points hide where the order actually changed. The bump chart ranks every driver after each race — every crossing of lines is somebody passing somebody in the table.

DRIVER TRACES · TAP TO ISOLATE

DATA TABLE · OFFICIAL RANK BY ROUND

Official championship rank by driver and round for 2009
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07	R08	R09	R10	R11	R12	R13	R14	R15	R16	R17
Jenson Button	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1	P1
Sebastian Vettel	P13	P16	P3	P3	P3	P3	P3	P3	P2	P3	P4	P3	P3	P3	P3	P2	P2
Rubens Barrichello	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2	P4	P4	P2	P2	P2	P2	P2	P3	P3
Mark Webber	P12	P9	P5	P6	P4	P4	P4	P4	P3	P2	P3	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4	P4
Lewis Hamilton	—	P10	P10	P7	P7	P9	P11	P11	P11	P8	P6	P7	P7	P6	P6	P5	P5
Kimi Räikkönen	P15	P18	P16	P12	P13	P8	P10	P10	P10	P9	P7	P5	P5	P5	P5	P6	P6
Nico Rosberg	P6	P7	P11	P11	P10	P11	P7	P7	P7	P5	P5	P6	P6	P7	P7	P7	P7
Jarno Trulli	P3	P3	P6	P4	P5	P5	P5	P5	P6	P6	P8	P8	P8	P10	P8	P8	P8
Fernando Alonso	P5	P6	P8	P8	P8	P7	P9	P9	P9	P11	P11	P12	P11	P8	P9	P9	P9
Timo Glock	P4	P4	P4	P5	P6	P6	P6	P8	P8	P10	P10	P11	P12	P9	P10	P10	P10
Felipe Massa	—	P13	P15	P15	P12	P10	P8	P6	P5	P7	P9	P9	P9	P11	P11	P11	P11
Heikki Kovalainen	—	—	P9	P10	P11	P13	P13	P13	P13	P12	P12	P10	P10	P12	P12	P12	P12
Nick Heidfeld	P10	P5	P7	P9	P9	P12	P12	P12	P12	P13	P13	P13	P13	P13	P13	P14	P13
Robert Kubica	P14	P19	P19	P20	P18	P19	P15	P15	P15	P15	P14	P15	P15	P14	P14	P13	P14
Giancarlo Fisichella	P11	P14	P17	P18	P19	P16	P17	P17	P17	P17	P17	P14	P14	P15	P15	P15	P15

ACT 4 RACE-BY-RACE

13 drivers stood on a podium.

6 different drivers won a race. Tap any chip to pin a driver's appearances across the calendar — the matching tiles light up. Empty bars mean a race where the chosen driver missed the top three.

PODIUM DRIVERS

R01 AUSTRALI

1 BUTTON

2 BARRICHELLO

3 TRULLI

R02 MALAYSIA

1 BUTTON

2 HEIDFELD

3 GLOCK

R03 CHINA

1 VETTEL

2 WEBBER

3 BUTTON

R04 BAHRAIN

1 BUTTON

2 VETTEL

3 TRULLI

R05 SPAIN

1 BUTTON

2 BARRICHELLO

3 WEBBER

R06 MONACO

1 BUTTON

2 BARRICHELLO

3 RÄIKKÖNEN

R07 TURKEY

1 BUTTON

2 WEBBER

3 VETTEL

R08 GREAT BR

1 VETTEL

2 WEBBER

3 BARRICHELLO

R09 GERMANY

1 WEBBER

2 VETTEL

3 MASSA

R10 HUNGARY

1 HAMILTON

2 RÄIKKÖNEN

3 WEBBER

R11 EUROPE

1 BARRICHELLO

2 HAMILTON

3 RÄIKKÖNEN

R12 BELGIUM

1 RÄIKKÖNEN

2 FISICHELLA

3 VETTEL

R13 ITALY

1 BARRICHELLO

2 BUTTON

3 RÄIKKÖNEN

R14 SINGAPOR

1 HAMILTON

2 GLOCK

3 ALONSO

R15 JAPAN

1 VETTEL

2 TRULLI

3 HAMILTON

R16 BRAZIL

1 WEBBER

2 KUBICA

3 HAMILTON

R17 ABU DHAB

1 VETTEL

2 WEBBER

3 BUTTON

DATA TABLE · RACE PODIUMS

EPILOGUE BY THE NUMBERS

The year in five numbers.

ROUNDS

17

DRIVERS

25

WINNERS

6

PODIUM·DRIVERS

13

POINTS·SHARED

644

CHAMPION

Jenson Button

95 PTS · 6 WINS

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ROUND	RACE	P1	P2	P3
R01 · 2009 Formula 1 ING Australian Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 ING Australian Grand Prix	BUTTON	BARRICHELLO	TRULLI
R02 · 2009 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix	BUTTON	HEIDFELD	GLOCK
R03 · 2009 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix	VETTEL	WEBBER	BUTTON
R04 · 2009 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix	BUTTON	VETTEL	TRULLI
R05 · Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Telefónica 2009	Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Telefónica 2009	BUTTON	BARRICHELLO	WEBBER
R06 · Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2009	Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2009	BUTTON	BARRICHELLO	RÄIKKÖNEN
R07 · 2009 Formula 1 ING Turkish Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 ING Turkish Grand Prix	BUTTON	WEBBER	VETTEL
R08 · 2009 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix	VETTEL	WEBBER	BARRICHELLO
R09 · Formula 1 Grosser Preis Santander von Deutschland 2009	Formula 1 Grosser Preis Santander von Deutschland 2009	WEBBER	VETTEL	MASSA
R10 · Formula 1 ING Magyar Nagydíj 2009	Formula 1 ING Magyar Nagydíj 2009	HAMILTON	RÄIKKÖNEN	WEBBER
R11 · 2009 Formula 1 Telefónica Grand Prix of Europe	2009 Formula 1 Telefónica Grand Prix of Europe	BARRICHELLO	HAMILTON	RÄIKKÖNEN
R12 · 2009 Formula 1 ING Belgian Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 ING Belgian Grand Prix	RÄIKKÖNEN	FISICHELLA	VETTEL
R13 · Formula 1 Gran Premio Santander d'Italia 2009	Formula 1 Gran Premio Santander d'Italia 2009	BARRICHELLO	BUTTON	RÄIKKÖNEN
R14 · 2009 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix	HAMILTON	GLOCK	ALONSO
R15 · 2009 Formula 1 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix	VETTEL	TRULLI	HAMILTON
R16 · Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil 2009	Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil 2009	WEBBER	KUBICA	HAMILTON
R17 · 2009 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	2009 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	VETTEL	WEBBER	BUTTON