VIDEO: BMW CELEBRATES 10 YEARS IN F1

As BMW Power gently closes the door on another chapter in its rich Formula 1 history, now the 2009 season has drawn to its end they leave us with only this video memoir of their last 10 years in the sport.

Its hard to believe a decade has passed since BMW's return to F1 for the 2000 season, 17 years after Nelson Piquet drove a BMW-powered Brabham to world championship victory in 1983. The well-edited video certainly doesn't lay off on the melodrama - but signs off with the words: 'see you on tracks around the world'.

So put down the Kleenex, you big jessies, they'll be back! (Someday, somewhere...)