Name your top driver of 2009
Jenson Button or Sebastian Vettel? Lewis Hamilton or Fernando Alonso?
Who do you think was the best F1 driver of 2009? Cast your vote below to decide the F1 Fanatic driver of the year.
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The guy with the most points obv.
Im Polish! I say Kubica!
Best driver not favourite =)
My favourite was Barrichello but Hamilton was the best!
He took a poor car and win. If he had a good car he could have beaten Button.
Yeah, I gotta say I was rooting for Chello all season, the underdog of the underdogs.
But then, I think that if you had given all the drivers an equal car, Hamilton would’ve won it, so that’s why I voted for him
Sorry, mate, but this is ********. As long as McLaren had a poor car – Hamilton drove poorly.
Let me remind you of how the season looked.
Hamilton was not better than Luca Badoer in his races.
Then McLaren did some fantastic improvements and suddenly had the best car in the field (that suited the tracks):
People seem to have forgotten about liegate, and altough Hamiltons preformances make him almost desrve top spot, its because of liegate that he shouldn’t be rated No.1 this year. I don’t hate Hamilton, if it was any other driver I wouldn’t rate them either.
The drivers this year made a lot of mistakes. The only ones I can’t remember making mistakes are Kubica, Alonso and Heidfeld in particular. Altough maybe I just didn’t notice cause they were so far back.
Best, most consistent driver with the greatest preformences was Rosberg. If it wasn’t for overstepping the pit exit line in singapore he would hve been flawless.
I didn’t make any mistakes in F1 this year either. That doesn’t mean I did anything right either … In fact it doesn’t mean I did anything in F1.
im sorry Damon, how can you shun Hamilton’s performance from Spain to Britain? he had a truly awful car. Badoer had a solid points finishing car in his hands, so dont compare the two guys.
huh? his car was cra* in melbourne yet he drove it from the back up to 3rd (albeit he was then told to lie by the people he trusted.)
Fair enough!
Gotta be Jenson – he’s the World Champion, after all. Even if the equipment was there, he still had to produce the goods to take the title – and he did just that.
I voted Button because as Keith said he made some awesome overtaking maneuver in Bahrain & mainly in Brazil.He kept his head cool & won the championship in Brazil.
A Hungarian voted Hamilton.
It was very close call my standings.
1.Lewis
2.Sebastian
3.Jenson
4.Mark
5.Rubens
I voted for Lewis because if you compare all the above driver with their partners Lewis simply outclassed Heikki.I know you will argue that Heikki is very poor driver compared to others but even margin was huge.
surely Rosberg should be in your top 5 then, JV?
His gap to Nakajima was 7.5 points more than the McLaren gap.
You can’t compare Heikki with Nakajima,who has not scored even a single point in his last 20 GP appearances and has barely scored couple of pts in last 29 GPs.Heikki is far better than Nakajima.
Yep, but as you told, Heikki is a very poor driver. so I think you’re quite right when you say that we should compare the gap, but Jenson and Seb – although they had strong partners – have been able to beat them with a good advantage in the championship.
Heikki is a very poor driver? Are you kidding me?
Compared to Hamilton he doesn’t look so hot maybe, but he destroyed Fisichella in his rookie year at Renault. Even having to change his driving style to cope with a car that was built for Fisichella’s driving style.
In GP2 he was pretty close to Rosberg.
I think ‘destroyed’ might be a bit much…
Well, then you would be wrong.
To recap:
- Heikki was a rookie
- The car was built to suit Fisichella
So yeah, Heikki took a few races to get used to the car. From Canada onwards, Heikki was a regular points finisher while Fisichella barely made it into the top 10.
Heikki scores 27 points vs Fisichella 8.
Lewis – from pulling together with the team to get the dodgy McL out of the mud and the consolidating the gains into wins
I just hope both Ferrari & Mclaren have a good car next season I am waiting to see both Alonso & Hamilton fighting to dead between them.
Badoer has 3 votes.Awesome!!!
He now has 9- including mine!
(sorry I had to vote for Badoer- my actual choice is Vettel, he is unbelivably fast)
Badoer currently has more votes than Barrichello, Rosberg and Massa.
Go Luca!
I like how raikonnen underservingly has so many votes.
My vote goes for Rosberg, because he was consistently faster than his team mate and consistently made the top 5 with a worse car. I think he will be great next year for Mercedes
Good comment. I like this.
What’s Kimi’s fault if others don’t have as big a fan-following as him. Give him a nicer car and Buttons and Hamiltons are pansies.
undeservingly? for a while he was the one who had collected the most points and if u have watched f1 then u should know how awful he’s car was during the whole season, and he had like 6 podiums in a row+ 1 victory, so deserves this many votes very much.
yes, undeservingly
if you want to discuss most points in a period of time, then you’d have to say Jensen, he had the most points in the period of time the poll refered too. And then you’d still have a load of drivers with more points than kimi.
If you are going by having a bad car and making points, like i did, i’d have to go with Rosberg, who had a worse car than kimi but was more consistent
If we consider the whole season that should be JB! Second one is LH. Third one is SV.
A hard decision, but I chose Button for his consistency and lack of mistakes compared to other drivers.
You could argue that Button’s results in the second half of the season were about defending his championship lead rather than going all out for the win every time, something Hamilton was criticised for not doing especially in 2007.
You could also say that some of the other drivers made mistakes because they were pushing their car to the limit to try and catch up, which left no margin for error. For example in the wet at the Chinese GP Hamilton was taking more risks and overtaking, but then lost some of those places because he spun a few times, while Kovalainen in the other McLaren finished ahead because although he wasn’t pushing as hard and he may not have been as fast at times he kept the car on the track.
The guy seized a once in a lifetime opportunity (for him) to win the WDC. Thats enough to be the best of the lot this season.
Looks like the Polish contingent are back out in support of Kubica lol =P
Commin over here, takin our votes…
Definetively, Nelsinho is F1F reader!!!!! (or maybe just Nelson Sr.)
might have been Alonso
Nope, it was Max who voted.
It’s Button hands down. Won the most races, got the most points. I believe that is the critera for the previous champions, and still is now.
No that’s the criterium for who drives the best car and scores most points with it.
“Best driver” goes a bit further than that.
Meh, Button still get’s it hands down for me.
Best driver is different to the one who gets the most points. Just look where Button was in 2008… now he has the best car he is first.
Yes, but in 2008 Button was really nowhere. The car was as good as a dog’s backside, and he lost all motivation.
Button has heaps of tallent, just very rarely in his career has had chance to prove himself. Benetton screwed him over, Williams wasnt a good car at the time and the BAR Honda/Honda wasnt the best of cars.
Of all the drivers who completed the FULL season this year, who had that most points, most points finishes, most finishes, most wins? Button.
Button made some of the best overtaking manouveres this year, and probably made the most overtakes this year overall.
To me it’s quite difficult to decide, because I think all of them did mistakes and came in troubles for different reasons during the season. So I think the best driver of the year is the one – among them – who did less mistakes and this is the reason I think Jenson deserves the title and the “driver-of-the-year-award”. Don’t you think so?
Bordais has one vote, Buemi has none – classic!
I went for Hamilton. The 3rd that never was in Australia, points in Malaysia and China where the wet weather would have made handling the early MP4-24 even worse than usual, 4th in Bahrain, the fight to 9th in Spain, the promise of Monaco, the gutsy “for the hell of it” drive at Silverstone – and that’s before the McLaren was any good!
Might have won in Germany (though that would have been down to Webber’s drive-through I’m sure); a real driver’s win in Hungary where he out-performed a Webber in a better car (that overtaking move was superbly textbook from start to finish) and drove intelligently to save his tyres (some say it was Red Bull’s tyre choice that cost them the win but Lewis was already way ahead at the first stop); fought for victory in Valencia, caught out in Spa qualifying like many others; the fight to win at Monza which showed his ability, determination, and racer’s attitude; Singapore where for the first time all year he had the best car on the day and blitzed everyone, 3rd at Suzuka whilst fighting hard for 2nd, the brilliant (if aided by strategy) fight to 3rd in Brazil, and blitzing everyone at Abu Dhabi before his brakes started to give out.
Button was the worthy WDC but all in all I think Lewis put in the better performance over the season. Interestingly, as of now the two of them take up 58% of the share of the current vote…
Button!!
Beating your teammate is relevant only within the team but has no bearing whatsoever relative to the rest of the grid, IMHO. Just look at the final points standings to determine which driver had the best year and the rest follow in descending order.
If you want to get abstract in rating one off or limited race performances than I would give my vote to Kobayashi, the guy was off the hook in his limited appearances. He deserves a ride next year.
Hamilton winning this is a foregone conclusion. Hell, if he stalled his car on the grid all season and didn’t finish one race people would still vote for him.
And if Hamilton won every race convincingly having started at the back of the grid in a car which was not the best some people would still say he is rubbish.
Both true. That’s why the guy divides opinion so much. Very similar to Alonso.
Which he is really ,,, to be fair
tbh half the vote should be cut off for Lewis since most people only voted for Lewis because they support him.
I voted for real so i didn’t pick Vettel i picked Button. This isn’t the X factor where you pick the most popular driver but the best driver for 2009 which was Button by lightyears.
I’d like to think that F1 fanatic readers have more intelligence about them than that!
By this logic, almost all of Kimi’s votes should be disregarded as he has so many fanatical fans that think he’s a god amongst men. He’s good but not the best.
God among men ,, I like that ,, not that far off from the truth !!
Kimi is definitely in a different league..
Actually when we polled on this last year eight drivers have more fans than Hamilton including Kovalainen and Barrichello:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/07/14/which-f1-drivers-do-you-like-poll/
lol we should have another pole for the ‘favourite driver of 2009′…
Idd 3/4 of the site are British and 2/3 of them are Lewis Hamilton fans.
This is what i have to live around sometimes in Britain.
(Typical Lewis Fanboy/Brit who has never watched F1 in his life)
“oh you know Lewis Hamilton he would of won this year if it wasnt’t for the car yack yack. Jenson button doesn’t stand a chance against Lewis because Lewis is the greatest ever, he would of beat schumacher thats why he left because schumacher is scared of Lewis. No other driver can beat Lewis because lewis has soooooooooo much raw talent not even Vettel or Rosberg can match him. Anybody who mentions the word hate to lewis hamilton is racist and should be kicked out of the motorsport. Alonso got masterclassed by Lewis in 2007 he should of won 2007 WDC yack yack yack yack…………”
(Me)
“Take cyanide pills and put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger so I dont have to listen to this garbage anymore.”
If guns and cyanide pills were not illegal over here i would of done that already.
It’s very easy for some people to ignore what Hamilton has achieved in his career so far, especially if you’re as partisan as your user-name suggests.
I do agree there are a lot of hamilton bandwaggon-jumpers about though.
Agree in part with you ,,,
Lewis has acheived a lot but why do we fail to see that he got the best car from the start of his career…
No other driver was that lucky ,,,
F1 is so competetive and there are so many good drivers but they dont g et the silver spoon (or a silver car for that matter) from the very beginnings of their career..
Button showed what anyone can do if the car is superior… Lewis on the other hand botched his chances by making mistakes in his first and even the second season .. you could literally see nerves on him when he was driving in Brazil last year for eth ch’ship… however he got lucky because of Glock.
Lewis may be good but certainly not Great !
So your response is to form the most ridiculous and atypical caricature you can and present it as if it was a significant minority. Way to win the moral argument! I live in Britain too and I hear the mirror side of it far more times than the version you portray.
If you look right now, it’s currently
Button
Hamilton
Vettel
You might not agree with it, but anyone who approached the matter intelligently would have a case for proposing that particular order – hell, it’s only slightly different from Keith’s top 3.
hay i voted for Button because he did the least f*** ups this season and was solid all year. I didnt vote for Vettel like a typical fanboy would, i have alot more respect for the other drivers then most fans who just follow a certain driver.
@Jim
I dont see how my name makes you think it will influence me just to vote blindly for one driver. “Pedal to the Vettel” means “Pedal to the Metal” which was a flag i made up at Spa this year, and has nothing to do with just supporting vettel completly thanks.
How does having a nickname related to a driver/team proove my utmost loyalty to them? Just because you might be using your real name doesn’t make you a neutral fan. Check my other posts if you like, I’ve always said vettel didnt take his chances and screwed up 1 too many times.
@Icthyes
Maybe it is different for you but i live in the South East and most F1 talk is about Lewis Hamilton.
Obviously you dont agree with me either on my views but hay thats life. But i think your coming on a tad more hostile then my post was meant to be about so either your tired or i hit the nail on the head and your a Lewis hamilton fanboy, and you dont like people slagging off Lewis which i can understand.
I dont dislike Hamilton i dislike the hype around him because when other people talk about (not very negative) things about lewis, a whole crowd comes around you “like this here” trying to make you look like some idiot because they dont like it.
Love is blind.
Hate is blinder.
Fanboys are the blindest.
There’s SO many people that are Button fans all of a sudden though now. Pretending they’ve been his biggest fan all along, but a year a go they were saying he’s the worst driver ever. This is what you have to put up with in Britain.
How can you say you dislike the hype around Hamilton but not mention the hype that’s now around Button and the ‘new’ amazing team Brawn, who really are just Honda. The media in Britain fails to mention that. All the focus is now on Button. They hardly mentioned Hamilton when he wasn’t doing well, it’s just how the media work. Button has as many fan boys as Hamilton, tbh I know more that (pretend) to like Button!
I don’t understand why people hate Hamilton because everyone starts to like them.
It’s like those annoying people that stop liking a band when they become commercial on popular.
I think the most hype has been around Brawn and Button the BBC have not stopped going on about the “fairytale” of the “new” team which is clearly Honda with a paint job and a name change.
Why are you focusing so much on Hamilton fan boys when Raikonnen and Kubica have tonnes of votes despite having average seasons.
Kimi fans seem to think he is a better driver than Senna and Schumacher combined even though Massa has beaten him in the last 2 years.
@ Pedel To The Vettel:
So you made a play on words. That’s nice.
Maybe it was a bit presumptuous of me to assume you blindly support Vettel, but it does show your bias. It just sounded to me like you were anti-Hamilton from your very sweeping caricature of his fans
I never said I’m neutral – I judge a driver on cold, hard stats only.
I voted for Button as well; we agree on that at least.
I voted for Kobayashi, yeah he was only in 2 races and his driving was a bit erratic but he was more impressive than most of the field who had been driving all year.
If he hadn’t come along my vote would have gone with Hamilton for dragging a bad car to the front of the grid and racing hard no matter what position he was in.
Vettel may have been in with a chance if only he could overtake!
Ehm, you were supposed to pick “the best” driver. Not one who is better than most. “Better than most” is the same as “above average”.
i agree with you Mark. and yes, No one was truly great this year.
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Out of 25 drivers, 15 gets eliminated automatically coz they fared worse than their team mates. These include ( Rubens, Webber, Heikki, Badoer, Massa, Glock, KOyabashi, Nakazima, KUbica, PIquet, Grosjean, Sutil, LIuzzi, Bourdais and Jaime)
Assumptions :
1. Massa raced for the whole season for ferrari
2. Fisichela never raced for ferrari.
Now have a look at the relative car performance over the WHOLE season.
1. Brawn ( 95 – points won by their lead driver Button)
2. Redbull(84 – vettel)
3. Mclaren ( 49 Lewis )
4. Ferrari ( 48 Kimi)
5. Toyota (32.5 Trulli)
6. Williams (34.5 Nico)
7. BMW ( 19 Nick)
8. Renault ( 26 Fernando)
9. Force india (8 Fisi)
10. Torro Rosso (6 Buemi )
Now multiplying the CAR rank with the corresponding points :
Button = 95 * 1 = 95
Vettel = 84 * 2 = 168
Lewis = 49 * 3 = 147
Kimi = 48 * 4 = 192
Trulli = 32.5 * 5 = 162.5
Nico = 34.5 * 6 = 207
Nick = 19 * 7 = 133
Fernando = 26 * 8 = 208
Fisi = 8 * 9 = 72
Buemi = 10 * 6 = 60
Hence the final ranking is :
1. Fernando Alonso
2. Nico Rosberg
3. KImi
4. Vettel
5. Trulli
6. Lewis
7. Nick
8. Button
9. Fisi
10. Buemi
Funny you should come up with such a system, we used to do it in our BATracer clan to determine who got what cars for the next game, based on how well you did minus a penalty for having a better car. But it used to change from race to race if a team got an upgrade, and I think multiplying the scores gives a bit too much weight. Nice idea though and I commend you for it
That system is ridiculous. kimi is 3rd and Hamilton 6th scoring more points in a worse car. Kimi also got beaten by his team mate so he shouldn’t be in the list
Yes the difference shoudl be much wider than just 3 places…
This system suggests that the brawn is twice as good a car as the Red Bull.
I support kimi,but jenson was the best driver this season.he won 6 of the first 7 races and even though he struggled in the 2nd half of the season he kept scoring vital points and only retired once,which was not his fault
Democracy is a funny thing… what has Badoer done 2 deserve such number of votes?? I voted 4 Vettel
Button was the best. But Vettel, Hamilton and Raikkonen was in a good shape too!
Why Badoer is in this list???
Why not?
If I leave any driver off the list there’s bound to be an accusation that I’m rigging the vote. You have to let people vote for whoever they choose.
For example, which driver on average gained more position per race than any other?
That’s right, Luca Badoer:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/2009_average_position_change.gif
(Yes I know the stat is hopelessly skewed and proves nothing, that’s my point!)
Out of 25 drivers, 15 gets eliminated automatically coz they fared worse than their team mates. These include ( Rubens, Webber, Heikki, Badoer, Massa, Glock, KOyabashi, Nakazima, KUbica, PIquet, Grosjean, Sutil, LIuzzi, Bourdais and Jaime)
Assumptions :
1. Massa raced for the whole season for ferrari
2. Fisichela never raced for ferrari.
Now have a look at the relative car performance over the WHOLE season.
1. Brawn ( 95 – points won by their lead driver Button)
2. Redbull(84 – vettel)
3. Mclaren ( 49 Lewis )
4. Ferrari ( 48 Kimi)
5. Toyota (32.5 Trulli)
6. Williams (34.5 Nico)
7. BMW ( 19 Nick)
8. Renault ( 26 Fernando)
9. Force india (8 Fisi)
10. Torro Rosso (6 Buemi )
Now multiplying the CAR rank with the corresponding points :
Button = 95 * 1 = 95
Vettel = 84 * 2 = 168
Lewis = 49 * 3 = 147
Kimi = 48 * 4 = 192
Trulli = 32.5 * 5 = 162.5
Nico = 34.5 * 6 = 207
Nick = 19 * 7 = 133
Fernando = 26 * 8 = 208
Fisi = 8 * 9 = 72
Buemi = 10 * 6 = 60
Hence the final ranking is :
1. Fernando Alonso
2. Nico Rosberg
3. KImi
4. Vettel
5. Trulli
6. Lewis
7. Nick
8. Button
9. Fisi
So you have ranked the drivers by how badly their team mate performed.
Now all you need to do is to determine how good their team mate was to correct it back to how good the original driver was .. ehm … eh …
Kubica and Kimi, you must be joking?
I voted for Hamilton
Kimi Raikkonen – it was a pleasure to watch him driving.
I’d vote for Lewis if I could, but it seems you can only vote once per internet connection.
I don’t get how people think winning the WDC instantly makes you the best driver. I really don’t like Button but I admit he drove really well this year, but that doesn’t make him the best of the year.
Voted for Hamilton, usually I hate his silly boy attitude off track but in the race he was giving all he got this year.
Vettel was also good (minus lol Melbourne crash), same Button (minus lol big handicap in the first half of season).
I would want to vote for my fellow countryman (Kubica) but since car was crap and his superiors from BMW were butthurt for him like always (this is no excuse though) he was not even trying this year…
I complete agree.
Kubica and Alonso didn’t try much this year but they seemed to still be praised
How did Badoer get more votes then Rosberg? lol
Seems like the pole at least so far is actually pretty reliable Button, Hamilton, Raikkonen and Vettel were properly the best drivers of the year.
Kimi and lewis drove well for half the year. But only half especially kimi. I voted for webber. I cannot remember someone achiveing what webber did with a broken leg(Tibia and Fibula).He was inspiring from Melbourne to the very last minute at abu dabi against button.2010 bring it on.
Yep. Webbo got my vote for a host of reasons – mainly because of his racy & agressive take no prisoners style, his 2 awesome wins which were just the class of the field on the day, his overtaking abilty, and last but not least because he proved his strength of character being able to drive at all, when the rest of us would still have been hobbling around on crutches come the start of the F1 season.
At least his customary bad luck seemed to desert him (although it made a few guest appearances this season) and he was finally given a car which could show what he was capable of.
Oh and before anyone accuses me of being a blindy patriotic Aussie, much as I like Webber, he is not my favourite driver. Alonso is, but I just can’t say that Alonso performed better than Mark this season. Sure Nando drove fantastically given his handicap with the R29, and he is definitely top 5, I still think Mark had the goods this season.
So, I guess we all decided that the term “best” is about as subjective as it is possible to get, that being said, if you have every driver drive in every car at every race, and they have relatively the same “luck” over the entirety of the season…who ends up with the most points?
Vettel. (who edges out Lewis & Alonso, with a little more seperation to Massa and Kimi)
Thanks boys for your time.
It looks like its head to head between the two British drivers,they will be teammate next season,hope they fight till end for the world championship.
I read many of these comments with ammusement. I would just like to point out “who is the best driver of 2009?”actually means-
who is the best driver of 2009
it doesn’t really mean any of the following-
Who do you fancy?
vote for your countries driver’s.
Vote for the best driver’s of 2008.
Who are you a fanboy of?
Personally I voted for JB for 1 reason I read the poll question and decided he had the best year.
I say Jenson Button was the driver of the year but Hamilton was the BEST driver. I think he really matured as a driver this year and we drove his heart out even when his car was never the best. I believe we can expect some more great things from him next year.
Kimi is first now. How ridiculous
Yeah, that’s the problem with these online polls. There will always be some fanclub trying to mess stuff up.
Besides Raikkonen, Vettel is ranked ridiculously high all of a sudden too.
Keith usually knows how to clean away the bad votes though.
Yeah although I love Vettel I don’t think he was the best driver of the year cos if he hadn’t have made a few mistakes he might have won it. But he did do a good job at the end of the year, so I think he deserves the amount of votes he’s got.
fanclub trying to mess !! its the truth !! try to live with it !! cheerio
haha! Why have a poll when the mod needs to clean up ‘bad votes’? Are they bad votes because you don’t agree with them?
There were so many guys that battled in the first half of the season and others that battled in the second half.
Button: worthy champion
Vettel: best driver
Well if people frustrate the voting proces then they are bad votes. They might even be voting more than once.
Why can’t he be driver of the year? His car was horribly unreliable losing a LOT of points at the beginning of the year, and his and his teams mistakes losing him some points. He dragged a car to victory when it wasn’t one of the best cars there.
While the McLaren was horrible for the first half of the season, it was one of the best cars in the second half, which allowed it to score the big points, while the Ferrari was consistently average. To finish just one point behind Lewis and nearly single handedly (in the second half) managed to get Ferrari 3rd place.
Think about it this way, in the first half of the season Raikkonen and Hamilton had 10 points each. Hamilton did have a worse car at that stage of the season, so Raikkonen should have achieved more points. But in the second half of the season, Hamilton scored 39 points and Raikkonen scored 38…
McLaren had a winning package by that Germany, the Ferrari stopped development by then, so surely Raikkonen did a better job in that period?
He may not be your driver of the year, but to call it ridiculous is silly, just like it would be if I said Hamilton beingcalled driver of the year is dumb.
Kav – you’ve just put into words everything in my head as to why I voted for kimi being the best
Whoops was meant to write “To finish just one point behind Lewis and nearly single handedly (in the second half) managed to get Ferrari 3rd place was a great achievement”
And Kayleigh, it is really annoying seeing Kimi not receive the credit he deserves this year. He did fantastic this year, he looked like the McLaren Kimi at Monaco, and in the second half of the year. The guy dragged a car from 6th to victory for goodness sake! We always moan whenever we only see races from pole or through the pits, but whenever we have an actual race, no one noticees! I mean I’m not a blind Kimi fanboy, I can admit when he was rubbish like in the second half of last year but I can also see when he has done great.
It was the same as last year, Massa didn’t enough credit for his achievements. Okay he may have benefited from 2 points in Spa and another 1 in Japan, but he did great. He did lose points in some races, but he also lost 20+ points through no fault of his own. His performance deserved him around 120 points that year. His mistakes were decisive only because of his reliability and team mistakes.
Despite myself, I had to vote for Button – if the question had been who was the best RACER of 2009, I’d have to say Hamilton.
Kimi leading the poll… some very strange energy around here with everything related to Kimi lately.
I’m almost done re-watching the races, perhaps with a more open mind, and as a Vettel fan I’ve come to realise that I had blanked many great Button drives / overtakes from my mind because I was so frustrated with his dominance at the time. Now I must say he is certainly a worthy champion, perhaps the best driver of the year. although I voted Hamilton
Well it certainly wasn’t Button.
Hamilton or Raikonnen I’d say. Although I’m sure Massa would’ve put in a better effort had he not got his head smacked in.
Kimi Kimi who else has the ability to drive that bullock Ferrari…
Its kimi none of them can get this!!
What’s the problem about Kimi being first??? He’s the best driver,that’s all.There’s nothing “ridiculous” as somebody said
KEEP FLYING! You’ll never walk alone 
No doubt about it…Kimi’s d best….
he led a bullock cart to victory and extremely consistent performances!!
fan clubs trying to mess with the poll?? what a bunch of sour grapes around here…Lewis isn’t the only driver out there, you know! Considering the fact that he doesn’t even know a RED light means stop, I’m totally surprised how he managed to get so many votes..no doubt thnks to some fan club trying to “mess things” there too…
move on…… he’s the best driver so he gets a lot of votes… =P besides who did u vote for? nelson? =P
DUDE SERIOUSLY!! IF U SEE ..KIMI IS LEADING !! IT MEANS A LOT I GUESS :p
a lot of foul play by kimi fans X(
u have a problem with the number of Kimi fans in this world?
lol dude !!
!! why ??
i am a kimi fan myslef … but i voted for lewis coz he was the best
he was the best ??in what way ??winning with a good car and crawling with a bad car???is this what you call THE BEST !! COme on man !!
Big names and person are always talked a lot. Who´s name is picked up mostly in this block? I´d like to say Kimi. As a Kimi fan I´d like to say he was the best, but maybe I rate for Barrichello with reasons I would not like to get you bored =)