Plus you had one driver whose team used the safety car to enable them to change to an optimal-one-stop-with-no-need-to-run-the-suboptimal-tyre strategy, and you had another driver in the fastest car of the weekend, again on a better (longer first stint) strategy.

I think the point of the whole ‘Drive of a Champion’ thing is that Jenson aggressively, and cleanly, scythed his way through the field – overtaking every man and his dog out there, inside at turn 1, outside-inside-outside of turns 4-6, mega-late braking and so on.

It was eminently more entertaining than watching Vettel sit behind cars (apart from a heavy Barichello when he came out after his first stop, of course) all afternoon whilst waiting for them to pit so he could use the benefit of his car’s speed and his team’s strategy to finish fourth.

The same could almost be said of Lewis, except that he also made good use of the technology at his disposal to do a spot of overtaking (note that Jenson didn’t have the benefit of a KERS button to do his passing).

…And I’m not trying to take anything away from Lewis or Vettel as they both did outstanding jobs.

I don’t think you had a barrage of responses to your previous post because loads of poor, deluded and slightly simple Button fans feel the need to defend a sub standard performance when compared with other mighty drives on Sunday, I just think they get a bit tired of people, like your good self, who continually play down the fact that the guy can actually drive a car, and actually stepped up to the plate, after making a balls up of qualifying, to win the Championship in the way that his critics have been saying he couldn’t do because he is ‘average at best’.

If Lewis drove that kind of race to fifth place last year you wouldn’t hesitate to call it the Drive of a Champion, would you?

Thank you so much for clearing that up for us…?

See what you can read into this…

‘My Opel Runs On Nitro’!

Button has been poor overall

Hardly. I’m not a great Button fan but how do you even begin to arrive at that conclusion? He has, after all, won the championship with a race to spare, and it’s not like it’s been an uncompetitive season, is it?

This inconsistency has got to go – it’s obvious and toxic for the integrity of F1, which even by its normal standards has taken a battering this year (lie-gate, crash-gate to name the 2 highest profile examples).

Roll on 2010!

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t 2 better drivers start behind him in Brazil and finish well in front of him?