i hope so, probably gonna give himself more time to build up his neck muscles

i wonder who's going to race in the mean time - probably just some test driver. maybe piquet jr lol

Congratulations to Jenson Button, World Champion  

It was good to see him put on a good show today, battling through from 14th on the grid ( after the monsoon qualifying ) to 5th with quite a lot of overtaking  ( watch it Jenson, this overtaking stuff in Fomula One might catch on  )

He had a phenomenal start to the season, 6 wins out of 7.

Then midway through the season the Red Bulls started to look really dangerous but didn't manage to take that form through.  

Also in the second half of the season,  Jenson's teammate Rubens Barichello, generally outqualified him and indeed more often than not raced better.

However, noone ever did catch the hare 

I'm very happy for him.

I have always followed Jenson's career myself and he has had some bad luck and also pretty dodgy cars to drive, most particularly last year's Honda.  At times he has seemed to have an uncanny ability to get himself to the wrong team at the wrong time. 

It is most certainly far from all down to the car, but a decent car is certainly needed for a driver to take the ultimate prize.  As FD said earlier, generally the best drivers will generate towards the best cars.  Then who ultimately wins is a combination of the driver and the car / team behind him.  But in my view, only if you are among the very top few drivers will you ultimately be successful.
 
Even though Honda / ultimately Brawn were a team in transition ( to put it mildly !! ) from last year, they were one team who did a lot of early development for the new rules this year ( such was the pig of a car Ross Brawn told them to give up on on last year ! ),  got a flyer and the lack of testing allowed this year probably added to the time it took others to begin to catch up.

At least I can say I was in Melbourne in March to witness the first ever Brawn appearance and 1 - 2 there by Jenson and Rubens. The Ross Brawn takeover was such a last minute thing that although I wanted to show support, they had nothing on sale at the track with the Brawn logo or anything, though quite a lot of cut price Honda stuff which I resisted.

Next year could be very interesting ( well for those like me who like their F1   ).  I would be tempted now to put some money on Alonso.  He may well, all things being equal, be the best driver out there, and over the last two years has got as much as I think anyone would out of the Renault.  Next year he will be at Ferrari and I'd be a bit concerned that Ferrari basically stopped looking for enhancements to this year's car some time ago and moved towards next year's car. They may well, like Brawn this time, get a bit of a head start.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 18th of October 2009 08:49:01 PM

alex03maccy wrote:

---

worst world champion ever. arrogant so and so.

---

Really? He doesn't come over that way to me. Do you have some inside info? If so, give! 

 

It would be an awful boring place if we all liked F1 or basketball

Each to their own...

Well done to Jenson, I don't really get the best car argument this year.

Vettel has clearly got a better car and has had better results. Its just he has made loads of mistakes and ended up throwing it away. Also Barra had the same car and didnt manage to compete the Jenson.

Jenson did the best with what he could. I don't think he is the best driver in the sport, but since when has F1 been about the best driver? A1GP tried to do that, but failed!

I was at Melbourne as well and I can remember the shock at Brawn getting onto the podium after all of the Ferarri and Mclaren domination of the last few years. I think this season has been a little low on overtaking but at least you never knew who was going to win each race!