The rise and fall of Jenson Button's F1 career
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2020
- Jenson Button started more than 300 races in Formula 1, in a career that included a stunning world championship, memorable victories, and plenty of bumps in the road. In this video Edd Straw looks back at Button's time in F1 in detail, giving each of his seasons a score out of 10. How would you sum up Button's F1 career, and what were his best and worst moments? Let us know in the comments!
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Another thing about Button: He's an amazing wet weather driver.
Seems like it's mandatory to be if you're British.
People say that but,,, he's amazing when it's damp, Not dry, slippery but not full wets, That razors edge where no tyre works, Thats when the Button magic shines.
Especially in everchanging semiwet conditions
He won 15 races and 7 of them in changing conditions.
Changing conditions he was the maestro
I heard that the reason Jenson was so good in the wet was because his father was too cheap to buy him rain tires while in karting.
I consider his 2011 Canadian GP win the greatest race of the modern era.
you probably meant too poor ;)
Agree!
That’s Esteban ocon
Yeah, that’s in his autobiography
Heard Lewis say the exact same thing. Guessing those extra tire sets do add up finacialy so people on a tighter budget have to use worn or unsueted gear. Pays off in the end. Learn to fight while at a disadvantige and you'll put up a proper fight when on level ground. Then again, with all due respect to his driving. It was the Brauws dubble diffuser that won the championship. Yes, he beat Barricello but he was never at the sharpest point of the knife neather. One of the best in changing condition, i'll give em that.
You either retire a champion or race long enough to see yourself become a backmarker
Like Schumacher, although I'll not take anything away from the great champion he was. Just..don't get back in the seat.
You mean like Raikkonen lol that dude should just quit
@@CG-kw3th He still does it because he has no intention of winning again. He still races because he enjoys it and he brings good money to Alfa.
In that case, Rosberg did it the right way.
Williams wants to know your location
one of the most underrated drivers in my opinion, raced against some of the greatest drivers of all time and put up impressive fights against schumacher, alonso, hamilton & then later sebastian vettel, while also winning the WC in 09
@@ciaronsmith4995 Hard to maintain one's peak form over so many seasons. And he wasn't so strong at the beginning of his career compared to his "glory days" at Brawn and especially at McLaren with Hamilton. But there are reasons why he got some many seasons; fast, smart, reliable, and fair. And he was competitive during many eras of regulations, wet or dry.
@@ciaronsmith4995 Button bet Trulli in 2002, Villeneuve 2003, Sato 2004 and 2005, Barrichello 2006 2007 and 2009, Hamilton 2011, Perez 2013, Magnussen 2014, Alonso 2015. Barrichello was not dominating at all Button in the second half, he was just slightly better, from Silverstone to the last race :
Wins : 2 Barrichello 0 Button
Podiums : 3 Barrichello 2 Button
Points : 42 Barrichello 34 Button
Ahead in qualifying : 9 Barrichello 1 Button
Ahead in race : 4 Barrichello 5 Button
So except for qualifying and wins, I can't see any true domination from Barrichello in the second half of 2009. And most of the time Button was less than 2 tenths behind Barrichello in qualifying in that period.
Also, bet by Perez in qualifying 9 to 10, lol that's like nothing, and Button bet Perez 73 to 49 (24 points gap, that's noticeable in midfield cars).
@@ciaronsmith4995 Half of what you're saying are facts only in your dreams. Just look at Raikkonen from 2008 to 2019. There are many more bad things to say about him than you're saying about Button. Im pointing that because I saw that you're not only a Raikkonen fan but Raikkonen is your god, you're praying for him, you adore him every night at 10 pm, most of your sentences are not objective, then not true. You have no longer any credibility, I saw what you were saying in many other comments, I saw that you are saying garbage about Button.
@@ciaronsmith4995 Briatore fired him because he did not like Button attitude and behavior, being a playboy. And even more, he loved Alonso, so Button did not have any chance of staying, even driving very well.
@@grivous9515 Don't bother, the guy is on a crusade to "prove" that JB wasn't a good driver. Too bad his "facts" are so ridiculous and one-sided that make him look like a moron... BARRICHELLO BEAT HIM IN THE SECOND HALF OF 2009 HURR DURR. Funny how this actually makes sense in his head!
My dad had lunch with him at the 2009 British gp (was mates with a brawn big shot) and said he was genuinely one of the nicest guys you could meet and just a good person. Gave me and my little brother a brawn gp hat each to my dad (but didn’t sign them)
Why would he have not signed them? But cool story
He and Rubens must've been the nicest pair of drivers in the paddock
@@deabreu.tattoo in terms of being gentlemens, he and Rubens basically unbeatable. Next pair would be Kimi and Seb.
i've always considered Button's biggest virtue to be the little amount of mistakes he makes and his consistency. such a great and underrated driver, and his career also shows how many years of work u really need to success in a difficult sport like this. shame 2011 Red Bull was just so ridiculously dominant, he for sure deserved that years title (and i say this as an Alonso fan)
oh, ill also always love how he humilliated Villeneuve at BAR after he shittalked Button from the very first moment he arrived at BAR, lovely
Miss Jenson on the grid.
There isnt any women on the grid
Krzysztof Wojewoda STFU
Krzysztof Wojewoda LMFAO
Lmaoooooo for once i get that joke
@@krzysztofwojewoda4075 ok
Button's F1 career is like a rollercoaster.
Great driver and even better person.
underrated driver. only one of 2 drivers to ever beat hamilton
in the same car you mean?
Well, tbh Alonso had some kind of rivalry with Ron Dennis, Kovalainen wasn't particularly fast and Valtteri is a number 2 driver at Mercedes. Button and Rosberg were the only equal drivers to Hamilton that could offer him some kind of challenge within the teams he was in.
Button was the only driver who beat Hamilton Fair and Square. I still believe Rosberg to this day was gifted the 2016 championship by poor reliability on Hamilton’s part. It’s obvious that Hamilton felt so bitter about the lack of unreliability on Rosberg’s part at the season ending race in Abu Dhabi when he held up the whole leading pack just to try and win the Championship. It’s also quite ironic how Rosberg then retired from the sport 4 days later don’t you think?
Adam Bennet alonso could have beaten hamilton easily if mclaren didn’t screw him up hell think even vettel would have beaten alonso if the same thing happened
Agustín Echevarría Alonso would’ve beaten Hamilton if his head wasn’t so big. He was too worried about the politics in the sport at the time to care about beating his team mate enough to actually beat his team mate. Remember both Alonso and De La Rosa basically were the drivers (both Spanish) who landed McLaren in the shit after Hungary when Alonso blocked Hamilton in the pits. People forget Raikkonen won a championship sometimes because he got very lucky with the 08 championship 🤷🏼♀️ and where does Vettel come into this 😂 Vettel is the biggest Fraud of the Turbo Hybrid era 😂
Maybe not as complete as the likes of Hamilton, Schumacher or Alonso, but a great driver with many inspirational drives behind him. He was my favourite driver for years, I was really sad when he left F1, but I still follow his career.
His virtual races are very fun to watch too these past few weeks! Usually he drives tremendously well in the first race, and knocks everyone off the track in the reverse grid one :D
I actually think he was better than Lewis in the 3 years they were teammates. He was better in the wet and more of a consistent driver than Lewis was at that time. The Lewis of the last 6 years however is another story.
Would be great to see him against Hamilton in the Mercedes now.
@@lmaximus5653 nah. he was consistently slower in race pace and quali, even he admits that.
@@lmaximus5653 He wasn't better in the wet. Far from it. That famous win in Australia was because he couldn't follow the pace where Hamilton did really well. That's why they went to slick, to try something else, and that worked out. Also, even though he beat Hamilton once, everyone knew Hamilton was the faster driver.
Button is far better at working with the team and developing a car than Alonso was. Not hard, since most drivers are better at this than Alonso. On track, Alonso was indeed one of the best ever though. But most teams will profit more from a Button than an Alonso.
Annoys me that he never went well/had luck at Silverstone. Underrated champion I think, if you took away his seasons in bad cars his stats would be pretty immense. Top bloke too 😀
Jenson’s ability to apply throttle and maintain traction on the loaded rear without breaking traction was brilliant. One of the reasons why he was so quick in changing conditions as he had a great feel for the limit of grip
The few times Button had a competitive car, he did really well with it! If Button had had the Ferrari of Schumacher, Red Bull of Vettel or the Mercedes of Hamilton then I’m sure he’d have had multiple world championships
My favorite driver.. Criminally Underrated.. But one of the best ever
The other thing I liked about Button was that he never really seemed to have petty outbursts regarding poor cars and other drivers. Seems like he was the last of the gentleman drivers, although George Russell appears to have a similar character. Hopefully Williams can improve or Russell can move to Mercedes before it drags him down.
I also really admired his driving style. His steering inputs were so precise and he'd barely change steering angle throughout a corner. I remember comparing it with Hamilton's choppy action at the time and it just looked so much neater and delicate. I wonder if that helped contribute to his wet weather prowess?
Button certainly did have this. There was a huge thing when he already signed for Williams and didn't want to go back and stay at BAR - Honda. Also, at McLaren when Alonso stated that the chassis was great and just the engine was terrible, Button always said that the chassis wasn't good either.
Hamilton is much smoother now
But i agree with you
In fairness I remember a fair few times when Button had a moan up about the car. I don't hold that against him though, drivers should be pushing the engineers.
@@tilentgamer8758 borington sucks
Russel's public-facing persona is such a front, and I don't know how more people can't see the arrogance/entitlement behind his eyes. I bet you if Mercedes don't get him to the front it'll become more obvious.
It's a shame I never realized how good Button was until his seasons with McLaren and Hamilton. I like many others thought that Lewis would eliminate him, but... Boy! I was wrong. A true rainmaster and a gentleman. I miss him a lot but thanks to coronavirus now I can watch his virtual races - he's great even there.
pAtRiCk StAr beat him overall? Hamilton won 2 times out of 3. Hamilton had more poles and more wins. Hamilton also was ahead in race results and miles ahead in qualifying results. Not to mention that the 2010-2012 period was Hamiltons unluckiest one with 12 dnfs. He also was a lot more inexperienced compared to Button, so when you put things into perspective, Hamilton was the clear winner of this “battle”.
Hamilton did eliminate him haha
The story of Jenson and Brawn GP is my all time favorite, even more so than stories from the Senna's era which used to be my favorite.
He was definitely a late bloomer but one of the most underrated!
It’s at least partly because he joined F1 so early with so little experience.
The Pirelli tyres really suited his style, too. Possibly more than any other driver.
I remember him always smiling and being funny before and after a race. He was a great driver with BAR, Honda, Brawn & McLaren. All of his moments with his teammates (Barrichello, Alonso, Hamilton) were really nice.
Jenson was my favorite driver when he was with BAR-Honda. I think she showed that he was championship type material if given a car that he liked. I think he also showed that he could also give into the pressures of F1 and life in general and be nothing but a "good driver".
To be honest I think his greatest years were with McLaren. He showed that he could step toe to toe with great racers like Hamilton year after year and do well. Many people say that the only reason why Button did well was due to Hamilton's ability to develop cars but to me that says even more about Button. Usually in F1 if a car is built around one driver's liking and not the other then the the other driver usually suffers. In this case Button rose up the occasion and at times did better or at least matched Hamilton. That's where I point when people say that Button was never championship material. That he had it all along he just needed a good car and a team that would support him.
@@ciaronsmith4995 douchebag
One of Button's most underrated performances was China 2007. Qualifying the dreadful RA107 P10, he used his feel of tricky damp conditions to mask the troublesome nature of the Earth Car to score a fifth place that ultimately spared some of the team's blushes, putting them ahead of Super Aguri in the Constructors Championship in 2007
Button won the best World Title. He can't afford a crash and brake the chassi. Amazing.
a nice wholesome video from you guys, love it!
One of the smoothest F1 drivers ever.
As finnish f1 fan, when kimi left ferrari after 2009 season, jenson was always my favourite driver and i still remember the late night in 2011 (it was about 2am in finland) when he overtook vettel in the canadian grand prix on the last lap, my neighbours and and my girlfriend back then werent so happy as i was. :D
button was a suburb tactician maybe the smartest driver on the field and thats why he usually did well in sub par cars. hamilton, vettle, alonso they knew how to drive fast button knew how to drive smart
Great Piss Head?
@@ciaronsmith4995 and another one lmao
1:20 It’s worth noting that while Fisichella wasn’t a spectacular driver, as demonstrated by his stint at Renault, he was very good at extracting performance from poor cars.
EDIT: Ah wait you guys mentioned it later 😂
Fisichella wasn't spectacular but always solid throughout his career.
Ivander85 Yeah definitely
he won his debut for renault think he just had alot of bad luck and was past his peak by then with a young champion team mate in their peak
@@gigsawsoljier1408 Yeah and Im pretty sure Alonso got a little bit of favoritism from Briatore during their two years together
One of the smoothest and most reliable drivers. The way he drove his cars was amazing to watch in itself.
Great video, thanks !! 👍
Spoke to someone who met him on a flight recently and said he is genuinely one of the nicest blokes you could meet. Was the reason I recently got proper into F1. Was and will always be my favourite driver.
Great driver, great person, a underrated champion, i miss him in F1.
The most underrated F1 world champion ever! The only driver who can challenge Vettel, Alonso or Lewis during their peak. A brilliant wet weather driver, kind of driver that we rarely have nowadays. I’m so sad that he had to end his career tragically just because of having a shitty car. Jenson deserves better. I think he should make a comeback to F1 at least for one season, so he can end his F1 career properly. He is such a lovely guy, kind and funny both inside and outside the track. A marvellous character that we rarely seen today in F1. A true gentleman. Jenson Button is indeed a F1 legend.
Respect to Jenson Button for always being respectful to his Brawn, McLaren, and Honda teams while also showing fair respect to Seb and Hamilton 👍
Yes man for sure more than 1. I would love to see him back. He was/ is one of the nicest guys ever raced in f1 😍😂
in my opinion, he was the best wet weather driver of recent times
Great guy, miss him a little. Given the right car he will deliver.
I love how he’s still got a grid penalty that he’ll never serve
Underrated. His skill in changeable conditions were second to none, and such a smooth driving style as well. Never moaned when things weren't going his way (maybe Lewis could learn a lesson or 2?). A worthy champion, and an all round gentleman. My favourite driver of the 21st century
Always liked him and still consider him as one of my favourite drivers to race in F1
I remember Nigel Mansell sometime in 2008 saying that Jenson was longer a championship contender...
All-round talent, really consistent if not a championship contender every weekend and a guy that is highly underrated for his wet-weather performances. I think he had a chance to secure a second title at McLaren but just wasn't able to. Nonetheless, it was good to see him afterwards at Le Mans and Super GT.
A lot of McLaren's reliability in the Mercedes era seems to stem from their insistence on using a home-grown gearbox, and not the "spec" one provided by the engine manufacturer
hindsight is 20:20, but 2012 could have been a very different story for Jenson and Lewis
Always smiled and was a PR dream. Never blaimed others and always talked the game up. The man has the talent and skill to race in a skip just like schumacha.
I remember when he came into Formula 1. I loved his smooth style and always liked him. I think 2011 was his peak. I think if he was in a Red Bull that year it would have been a much closer fight to Seb,
C'mon, it's JB. We love JB. And not just because he's a good Somerset boy.
What is often overlooked is the fact that besides the great driver he was, he was an even better person. Always very polite, friendly and honest. One of Formula 1 last gentlemen drivers! So even as a german and therefore supporter of Vettel in the early stages of his career I was so desperately routing for him to win the championship in 2009.
It's strange that a driver who was so good in the wet found it so hard to adapt when the car wasn't entirely to his liking in the dry. He totally disappeared for the middle of the 2009 and 2012 seasons while his respective team mates didn't struggle to nearly the same extent. In his early years, he was too much of a party boy, so I don't really judge him too harshly on 2000-2003 (not that he was by any means dreadful in that time).
The blown diffusers of 2011 were absolutely tailor made for him though. He was brilliant that year and made very few mistakes with some great drives.
In his book, he said Renault boss Flavio Briatore always publicly criticized him as a playboy because he didnt perform well. Similar thing happened with Kimi Raikkonen. F1 drivers always gotta deal with bad press. Button learned from Fisichella that a driver needs to work with engineers to set up the car to your liking, thus his improvement afterwards. Button's story is a good read.
He was very good at some races, but not consistent over a season (in terms of performance). I can remember weekends when Lewis Hamilton was fighting for wins while Button was out of the points because he was not fast enough.
@@ciaronsmith4995 Who finished the season with more points? Are your arguments always that stupid or is there something special about JB that makes you sound like a moron?
@@ciaronsmith4995 Button actually kept Hamilton and Alonso honest while the "great Kimi" was trashed by Alonso and Vettel. The great Kimi was also out-qualified by Massa and Grosjean btw.
@@ciaronsmith4995 That's Magnussens opinion, not a fact based on numbers btw.
But if we are playing the card, Alonso: "Vandoorne closer than other teammates, including Räikkönen".
One of the greats and beat some of the most highly rated team mates! His record against Champion team mates speaks for itself!!!
F1 & GT Champion l think Jenson has had a fantastic career in motor sport!
@@ciaronsmith4995 Schumaher's record against Rosberg speaks for itself. What a shit driver Michael was, eh, totally lucky to win 7 championships...
@@ciaronsmith4995 so Button is better than Schumacher then by your logic. He showed he can race on any tyre slicks or not. Your arguments are weak and your crusade against him is outright pathetic.
@@ciaronsmith4995 clown
@@ciaronsmith4995 Button didn't adapt to the cars he was driving for the first 4 seasons of his career, but we saw him from 2004 to 2006 and 2009 to 2015. What kind of nonsense is that? Picking years to show that he wasn't good enough? Anyone can do this about any driver, the only reason people don't is because it sounds ridiculous and makes you look like a pathetic loser with no life.
Jenson Button, one of my favourite drivers he was a gentleman and Rain Master. He did some great drives in F1 and I was happy he got his world championship in 2009 with Brawn GP. I was one of the people that thought Jensen Button and Lewis Hamilton would be fantastic team combo.
Made the most of his chances especially considering half his career was in boats of cars, a real gentleman that I’ll fondly remember and im so happy he found more championship success in japan and as a british gt team owner in 2020
JB honestly was my hero when he first started for Williams in 2000! He was basically a young Lando racing for Williams at 20. His 2009 title victory gave most F1 fans hope, especially considering what dark times the financial crash of 2008 had for the sport.
I met him at my local kart track in Socal, guy still is a legend by all means
He has such a great talent to choose the perfect Tyre at the perfect moment when the conditions are changing themselves suddenly, he wasn't the fastest driver on the grid but he tried to use all of his opportunities to make a great move on the next driver 😁 I quit liked him on the track, a great guy has a great hurt, but he wasn't able to make a nice contract with a great team he's best choice was definitely the Brawn Gp but I think it was about the Luck and not about he's prognostication skills and the McLaren could be also a great one but they weren't lucky enough to beat the red bulls , in my opinion he deserves more than just 1 World Championship title.
One of if not the most underrated championship winner
For me it was buttons fantastic ability to make his tyres last long stints due to his extremely smooth driving his consistency in race pace and his awesome wet weather driving that makes button my favourite driver off all time yeah he might not be considered to be one of the greats of all time but he will always be a world champion and as Martin Brundle once said a true gentleman.
Yenson one of my all time favourite along with fisi and kovalainen
I still remember Brazil 2012. Button and hulkenberg were the only ones who stayed out on slick and well ahead of everyone before a safety car
Jenson was such an underrated driver.
Probably the most underrated drivers ever, imo. True legend
Smooth, consistent, you never see him make an error lol
The things with F1, is that it is all about timing. Being in the best team at the right time.
I always really liked Jenson on the grid. A top driver who didn't always have to seem the car he needed underneath him. Really class act as well.
As a New F1 fan I wasn’t around to see this happen but glad to see videos like this to educate us noobs on a rich history of racing.
I saw Jenson at the Montreal GP in 2019. I yelled out his name. He turned around and gave a thumbs up. We’ve been besties ever since. He just doesn’t know.
Yeah , I think you got it pretty much right . F1 is a s much about luck in terms of being in the right team at the right time as it is about being a capable driver. Jenson was always mega smooth in his style and once he got a car (Brawn obviously) that he felt happy with, he aced it . I love the guy (and have you seen his latest girlfriend ?) damn , man
Great driver, should've had more championships...great man too.
For me he is perhaps the best driver of the last 20 years (maybe longer), in changeable conditions where you need to decide is it slicks or is it inters time. Depending on what happens this season with the COVID stuff, if a team was to have a driver need to miss a race for some reason they could do far worse than asking Button to fill in for a single one off race. Love to see him in a front end car 1 more time so he can have a proper final race instead of the mess that was his run out at Monaco
Painfully underrated driver, I’m glad Danny seen that too
He's one of my favorite People from F1, just seems like a nice guy.
JB is my favourite driver of all time, his style and approach is so different.
Great champion, highly underrated
Very underrated driver and one of the best in the wet very good guy too
I mean his early career he was constantly being shafted. Goes to Williams, the next year he's out because of Montoya. Goes to Benetton/Renault, the next years he's out because of Alonso. Then it was picking the best options out of middle of the pack seats, which was BAR/Honda, which again shafted him because of instability. They were good car, bad car, ok car, really bad car. In the end in payed off with Brawn, which made him be able to move to Mclaren, which he proved he wasn't as bad as some said, he was able to hold his own against a natural talent like Hamilton in his own house. So in my book he deserves respect.
I was a JB fan since he started at BAR. I was like 13 or something. We have a similar first name and the same initials, and I didn't quite understand that I was gay yet. Jenson was my crush and my hero. Family were all Schumacher supporters, and then it was just me shouting for Jenson. The first time he won a race I shouted so loudly I was shouted at by my family 😂 then it was the horrors of Earth Dreams and Honda leaving F1, lowest of low points for a JB fan. And then..... Magic! Brawn, #22... One of the happiest moments of my life. I felt affirmation for my support. All the years of laughter by Schumacher fans and DNFs melted away. He is one of my few sporting heroes. Jenson Button, Caster Semenya, Natalie Du Toit. Just epic humans! I do wish JB would do another season so he can break Barichellos record, but if he never raced again, I'd still die a proud Button fan.
Jensen was always one of my favorites it always seemed as if he just never got the right timing with the cars. I sometimes think that he was so smooth sometimes a struggle with tyre temps
'always seemed as if he just never got the right timing with the cars' ; until he did :) big time!
JB is my favourite F1 driver ever. Love the guy.
An underrated driver. Not an all time great but one of the greats of the last 20 years.
Judging by the graph, i would argue his 2011 season was far better than his 2010 or 12 seasons. He seemed the only driver able to consistently match Vettel on race pace. It’s worth pointing out that Hamilton had easily his worst season in 2011, struggling mentally - some of that was surely down to JB’s form. Even Alonso wasn’t much of a match for Button that year.
2011 wasn’t outstanding, but was far more consistent than 2010 or 2012.
2011 was by far his best season ever
It defintely was. Button was consistently outpaced and beaten by Hamilton throughout 2010 and 2012 (don't let the points gap fool you, Hamilton suffered much worse luck in 2012), however in 2011 he was pace- wise close and made far less mistakes than Hamilton. Defintely a great season by Jenson.
K&S freestylers agreed - his speed and natural smoothness behind the wheel came together perfectly with experience that year.
Daniel Araya true, by no means am i making the point that Button was better than Hamilton - we all know that slightly off-kilter stat about him beating Hamilton cumulatively in points between 10-12. Button simply won the battle in 2011, he was the “outside bet” at the title Vettel had wrapped up from round 1!
A storied F1 career that could certainly be used for hollywood movies. He wasn't always the quickest out there but his consistency is the like of Hamilton and Schumacher for sure.
Great driver and a long and illustrious carrer
In changeable conditions he was the maestro.
Jenson was one of the most understated drivers of 21st century
Great driver, worthy champion, another perfect example of how important it is to select the right team at the right time. Obviously his decision to stay at Honda before becoming Brawn Gp, was the only correct decision he ever made. Alonso knows what I mean, Seb has just realized too.
From not scoring in the opening races in 2005 to winning all but one of the opening races in 2009, JB became a legendary driver.
Brilliant driver and massively underrated, pitty he spent do much of his career in less than great cars
Kanada 2011, when he overtakes Vettel was great. From zero to hero.
Button out scored 3 world champions as team mates in jv hamilton and alonso and won a world championship so underated
The Canada 2011 drive was legendary. I remember screaming when passed Vettel on the last lap.
I remember at the time thinking that Benetton had shafted him. I read an article how they were in Lanzarote in the close season and briatore was moaning about his lack of focus and desire to train and be as fit as schumacher. Of course it's good in hindsight because if he'd not been dropped by them and all these other factors he wouldn't have that championship with brawn, which is the most fairytale championship in F1 history!
Very lucky is what comes to mind when I think of Jenson Button. Examples of this are Brawn buying out Honda and the double diffuser. As well as the five Pit Stop race... I believe that was a record.
He has achieved great things in Formula 1 don't get me wrong but with shovelfuls of luck!!
A reliable and consistent performer who perhaps didn't quite have the outright speed to put him in the very top bracket of drivers. In terms of where he stands compared to his contemporaries, I'd put him just behind Raikkonen and Ricciardo and just ahead of the likes of Webber, Massa, Coulthard, Montoya, and Barrichello. Deserves his one WDC for his performances in 2004, 2009 and 2011 but any more would be pushing it I reckon.
@@ciaronsmith4995 and another one
Should've been given a chance at one of the big teams much earlier in his career. Superb driver and fitted in so well at McLaren.
Quality driver, very underrated, even after his World Title. Didn't have the quali pace of a Hamilton, Schumacher or Alonso, but he had the race pace and craft to match them and often beat them. His seasons as team mates to Lewis and Fernando highlight that. Whenever the race chucked up something unexpected wether that be rain, tyres, crashes, JB would always shine and again often beat Hamilton in those Mclaren year, thinking Aus, China 2010, Hungary, Canada 2011 etc. 2011 was his best year, regularly beat Lewis and was the only driver to consistently trouble Vettel (who was driving a car which at some tracks qualied a second clear of the pack). Had he kept his williams drive for that 03 car, and had some better luck and realibilty in 2010 and 2012 he could have easily of added to the world title and be rightfully considered an all time great. As it is, with 1 title he will probably go down as a 'second tier' legend, behind Senna, Clark, Prost, Lewis , Alonso etc
Great driver. His best moments are bar honda and of course brawn gp
What's the name of the song used in the background of the start of the video?
Super GT champion Benson Jutton!
I guess Ed meant four times between 2007 and 2008 that Button scored points because in 2007 he scored 6 points and in 2008 he scored 3, making 9 points combined in those years
Button was unlucky at the begining and end of his career for sure, but when the opportunity came with a competitive car, he grabbed it with both hands! Such a nice bloke too, just like his Dad. Jenson is like the archytypal English Gentlemen, and such a great ambassador for F1. 👍🏻☺️
He's one driver I think could have won another title or two with the right car. Top, top class bloke and excellent driver. Even though Lewis was 1, Unlucky with reliability, and 2. Mentally not there, Jenson went toe to toe with him. Their dynamic was good, and he was all in all a pleasure to watch!
Just wish he had better cars after 2012.
There was no fall in his career.
JB was always very, very good. All the ways until the end.
Everyone that knows a bit about F1 knows that.
Grande JB!