Having re-established himself as the alpha male of Formula One with his commanding victory in Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton warned Jenson Button he would relish "taking back" his world title in 2010, assuming the Brawn driver goes on to win this year's championship. † Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.Jump to navigation Lewis Hamilton promises to press F1 champion-elect Jenson Button in 2010 ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Racing record Career summary SeasonĬomplete Formula One results Button finished the season in seventh with fourteen points, just ahead of Trulli. In July 2002, he signed for the BAR team, and would race with Jacques Villeneuve, who won the championship in 1997. Even though Button was doing well, Briatore signed Fernando Alonso for 2003, and Button had to find a new team. He almost scored a podium result in Barcelona, but could not finish the race. His results were much better than in 2001, scoring in the points many times and doing better than his teammate Jarno Trulli. Some people thought that Button would move teams because of his bad results, but stayed at the team for 2002, which was now called Renault. His best finish was 5th place at Hockenheim. In 2001, he changed teams to the Benetton team, and raced alongside Giancarlo Fisichella. He scored 12 points that year, and finished 8th in the championship. His highest place on the grid for the start of the race was 3rd position in Belgium. He scored points six times during 2000, his highest place finish being in Germany where he finished fourth. He became the youngest driver to score a point at the Brazilian Grand Prix. In 2000, Button joined the BMW WilliamsF1 Team at the age of 20, with Ralf Schumacher. You are free: to share to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. His father John Button (1943–2014) was a racing driver. Button won the Formula One World Drivers' Champion in 2009. Original file(2,893 × 1,560 pixels, file size: 1.09 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File information Structured data Captions Captions English Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents DescriptionJenson Button Bahrain 2010 cropped.jpg Jenson Button driving for McLaren during a practice session in Bahrain. Jenson Alexander Lyons Button, MBE (born 19 January 1980 in Frome, Somerset) is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren Mercedes.
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