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I regularly post over at F1 Fanatic, and I remember Kobayashi got voted as having performed the Pass of the Year, and all because he overtook Jenson Button in Abu Dhabi, the race after Button was crowned champion. Button had literally just emerged from the pits that lap, fuel-heavy and on green tyres. Kobayashi had not yet made his stop, so he was light on fuel and using the ultra-durable Bridgestones. His pass on Button was a foregone conclusion, and the actual move at the hairpin was sloppy and very nearly took both of them out. I could have made that move stick, and yet people voted this as the best pass of the season.

His move wasn't at the hairpin, it was at a chicane IIRC. He put Button in a position where he'd have to go on the inside on the marbles so if Jenson was going to make the corner he'd either have to brake extra early or outbrake himself, either way Kamui was going to go through in the lead.

That was a mature move from a rookie IMO, or I guess you could look at it another way and say that it was a ridiculously stupid decision from a world champion to allow himself to be snookered in this way.

On the other hand I heard people waxing lyrical about his race in Brazil the race before and there frankly I failed to see what was special.