
This is just a quick note to say that BBC Sport has put together a brilliant F1 season review entitled The Year in Pictures, which takes a look back over the highs and lows of 2009.
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This is just a quick note to say that BBC Sport has put together a brilliant F1 season review entitled The Year in Pictures, which takes a look back over the highs and lows of 2009.

BBC Sport’s Ted Kravitz always comes up with some great insider type blogs, and his latest episode post-Abu Dhabi is more of the same.

Toyota has this morning announced that it is pulling out of F1 with immediate effect.
It cites the global economic downturn as the reason for the withdrawal, after posting the company’s first ever operating loss back in March.

News reaches us this morning that’s about as surprising as the clocks going back, that we didn’t have a proper UK summer and that Fernando Alonso is driving for Ferrari next year: Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg are in at Williams.

The first ever Abu Dhabi GP didn’t really live up to all of the off-track bluster once the race actually got going, until about two laps to go when Jenson Button got close enough to second place man Mark Webber for a bit of an on-the-edge ding-dong.

Well it wasn’t the all-British front row that we’d hope for, but McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton stuck his car on pole position for the inaugural Abu Dhabi GP, the last race of the year.

Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton traded places at the front during the first practice session at the inaugural Abu Dhabi GP this morning, and it was good.

Ahead of this weekend’s Abu Dhabi GP, Nico Rosberg has announced that it will be his last race with Williams.
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