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The 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 63rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 60th Formula One World Championship which was contested over 17 events commencing with the Australian Grand Prix on 29 March and ending with the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on 1 November.
The Canadian Grand Prix returned in 2010 after its one-year absence. [82] The German Grand Prix returned to Hockenheim for one year, after being held at the Nürburgring in 2009. The Japanese Grand Prix was due to return to Fuji Speedway for 2010, as part of a year-on-year rotation with Suzuka Circuit.
The World Drivers' Championship is awarded to the most successful F1 driver over the course of the season, as determined by a points system based on Grand Prix results, [12] and has been awarded since the first F1 season in 1950. [13] The championship is the successor of the pre-war AIACR European Championship held between 1931 and 1939. [14]
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Italy has held the most Grands Prix with 107 since its first in 1950. Only Morocco has staged just one Grand Prix. The most recent addition was the Las Vegas Grand Prix in 2023. [20] Locations of the countries that have hosted a Grand Prix. Nations on a current schedule are highlighted in green, with circuit locations marked in black.
The first World Championship Grand Prix was held in 1950 at Silverstone; since then 77 circuits in total have hosted a Grand Prix.A lot of classic (older) circuits have hosted Grands Prix using different configurations throughout their history: Nürburgring, Spa-Francorchamps, Monza, etc. Taking Nürburgring as an example, the first World Championship race there used the 22.835 km (14.189 mi ...
The 2009 German Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Grosser Preis Santander von Deutschland 2009) [1] was the ninth race of the 2009 Formula One season. It was held on 12 July 2009 at the Nürburgring in Nürburg, Germany; the earliest German Grand Prix on the calendar (a feat since beat by the 2013 race), since 1926.
It was provisionally announced as being held on 15 November 2009, as the 19th and final Grand Prix of the season. [11] Both the Canadian Grand Prix and French Grand Prix were later removed from the provisional schedule, [12] [13] and as a result the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was moved to 1 November 2009 where it would become the last of 17 meetings ...