On this day | Fairy tale season for Brawn GP as it wins both F1 championships in 2009

The 2009 Formula 1 season was a special one. Not just for one specific reason, but for everything that went with it. And on 18 October 2009, the world changed for the Brawn GP team as they secured both F1 championships at that year's Brazilian Grand Prix.

When the BAR Honda team announced that they'd be exiting the sport at the end of the 2008 season, Ross Brawn, the then-team boss, begged and pleaded with the higher-ups not to do so. The 2009 car will be competitive, he said. It will challenge for the championships, he said. But after so many seasons of non-competitiveness, they ignored the man who helped steer Michael Schumacher to all seven of his F1 crowns.

But, they said, Brawn can purchase the team for £1. Mind you, the F1 team was worth more than US$200m!

And so Brawn GP, with Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello as its drivers, took to the 2009 season in what many would call a fairy tale campaign.

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Button is on the button

Button soon emerged as a title contender. He walked away as the victor in Australia and Malaysia, but in China, he settled for third behind the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. It was only a small bump because he rose to the top again in Bahrain, Spain, Monaco, and Turkey.

Sadly, Button's season took a bit of a dip after the first seven rounds, as he only appeared on the podium twice in the remaining ten races: second in Italy and third in Abu Dhabi. On the other hand, Barrichello didn't fair that much better, but he managed two wins in Valencia, Spain, and Italy.

Thankfully for Button, his early season performances put him in good stead for the remainder of the year, as he kept his