Motor Racing
- Formula One
- Drivers' championship: Jenson Button (GBR)
- Constructors' championship: Brawn GP
- World Rally Championship
- Drivers' championship: Sébastien Loeb (FRA)
- Manufacturers' championship: Citroën
- MotoGP
- 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
- MotoGP champion: Valentino Rossi
- 250cc champion: Hiroshi Aoyama
- 125cc champion: Julián Simón
- 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
- Motocross
- Motocross World championship
- MX1 winner: Antonio Cairoli
- MX2 winner: Marvin Musquin
- MX3 winner: Pierre Renet
- Motocross des Nations won by United States
- Sidecarcross World Championship won by Joris Hendrickx / Kaspars Liepins
- Motocross World championship
- NASCAR
- Sprint Cup Series championship — Jimmie Johnson became the first driver ever to win four consecutive Cup Series titles.
- 51st Daytona 500 won by Matt Kenseth
- Nationwide Series championship — Kyle Busch
- Camping World Truck Series — Ron Hornaday clinched the series title with 1 race remaining. He became the oldest driver ever to win a season title in a NASCAR national touring series, at age 51.
- Sprint Cup Series championship — Jimmie Johnson became the first driver ever to win four consecutive Cup Series titles.
- Open wheel racing
- 93rd Indianapolis 500 won by Helio Castroneves (BRA)
- 2009 IndyCar Series championship won by Dario Franchitti (GBR)
Read more about this topic: 2009 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“The motor idles.
Over the immense upland
the pulse of their blossoming
thunders through us.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)