Button – “It’s all about the first few laps..”

World Champion Jenson Button spoke to a few of the leading F1 websites today on a phone-in from the McLaren Technology Centre.
He seemed very upbeat after the testing and clearly believes that he has a competitive car. However he said that the last few weeks have proved to him that the first few [...]

McLaren drivers loved up ahead of competitive season

The two McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were quite a double act today at the launch of the new McLaren MP4/25. Hamilton welcomed his new team mate warmly, even suggesting that Button would get priority treatment in the event that the team could only produce one new piece of equipment for a race. [...]

McLaren strives to give Button and Hamilton equality

McLaren has reshuffled its engineering staff at the race track, giving both Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button new race engineers, who have been promoted from junior roles.
Hamilton will work with 31 year old Andy Latham, while Button will be engineered by 39 year old Jakob Andreason, who was number two engineer on Hamilton’s car for [...]

Hamilton and Button mark out their territory

The two McLaren drivers for 2010, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have had some revealing things to say this week as F1 gets going again after the New Year. The in house battle at McLaren will be a real talking point this year and the pair are approaching it in different ways.

Hamilton has come out [...]

Button doesn’t have X Factor when it comes to sports personality

Jenson Button collected a trophy yesterday at the BBC’s Sport Personality of the Year award, but not the one he was expecting.
He was the favourite going into the event, but like Lewis Hamilton last year, the F1 world champion found himself demoted to second place, in this case by the Manchester United footballer Ryan [...]

Button favourite to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year

A fantastic year for Jenson Button could be rounded out with a win in the most prestigious sporting award the UK has to offer.
The short list for the 56th BBC Sports Personality of the Year award were announced last night and he is the odds on favourite to win. Looking at his competition, he [...]

Button and Brawn: Now it’s getting bitter

It’s amazing how little time there ever is in F1 to enjoy the moment, to celebrate something special, before something comes along and makes it all turn nasty.
The bitterness is starting to come out now in the aftermath of Jenson Button’s shock move to McLaren on a three year contract.

According to Ross Brawn, who has [...]

Button pulls the trigger on Brawn, now he has to beat Hamilton

Jenson Button has done what he threatened to do; quit the team he won the championship with and launched a new adventure with McLaren.
Button has a three year contract to race alongside Lewis Hamilton in an all British “World Champions” superteam.
Everyone at the Brawn team in Brackley will be disappointed by this and there will [...]

Is Button being pushed out or is he playing the game wrong?

Tomorrow’s papers in the UK will be full of stories about how Mercedes’ takeover of Brawn means that the team will have an all German driver line-up, while Jenson Button is being pushed towards an all-English line up of Button and Lewis Hamilton. Indeed the Guardian is reporting this evening that Button is on the [...]

Button and McLaren opt for a piece of theatre

The latest turn of the wheel in the saga over where Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen will race next year is that Button and his manager, Richard Goddard visited McLaren’s Woking HQ yesterday.
In itself that is no great surprise, it sends out a message to Brawn that Button has options and McLaren are known to [...]

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