# Jenson Button - F1 World Champion.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jenson-button-f1-world-champion/514234>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 18, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jenson-button-f1-world-champion/514234 "2009-10-18T18:10:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jenson-button-f1-world-champion/514234/1 "2009-10-18T18:10:40Z")

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Um, nobody else seems to have made a thread about this so. Here is one.

> **[BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula 1 | Brilliant Button clinches title](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8313300.stm)**
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> Jenson Button seals the drivers' championship with a superb recovery drive at a dramatic Brazilian GP won by Red Bull's Mark Webber.

Yay!

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jenson-button-f1-world-champion/514234/2 "2009-10-18T18:19:05Z")

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I’m British and I can’t dredge up that much enthusiasm.

About bloody time, I say!

(just spotted where you are from.)

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jenson-button-f1-world-champion/514234/3 "2009-10-18T18:25:37Z")

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> [@ivan\_astikov](#):
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> I’m British and I can’t dredge up that much enthusiasm.
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> About bloody time, I say!
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> (just spotted where you are from.)

Well I had almost no enthusiasm for most of the F1 season, but it makes a change to the ordinary when a Brit wins something big.

ETA: And this is the second season in a row that it has been won by a Brit. First time ever that two consecutive F1 seasons have been won by different British drivers.

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**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jenson-button-f1-world-champion/514234/4 "2009-10-18T19:21:20Z")

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I’ve watched F1 for many many years but I can’t really get too happy about Button winning. In my opinion he won because of a ‘dodgy’ car design that broke the spirit of the rules and once that advantage was smoothed out his form nose-dived. I really wanted Vettel to win. Don’t get me wrong, I like Button, I just feel he is far from the best driver on the track.

I wont lose any sleep over it.

Looking forward to next year (and the last race)…

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**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jenson-button-f1-world-champion/514234/5 "2009-10-19T09:21:44Z")

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i think this season could have been great if the first 6 races wouldn’t have been all about Brawn. After that there has really been a mix of riders and acrs performing well. But i guess he deserved it for being so dominant early on (and Barrichello did have the same car but failde to beat him), also nice for him to do it in a race where he actually drove well.