Jenson Button

Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE ( born January 19, 1980 in Frome, Somerset, England ) is a British racing driver.

He starts since 2000 in Formula 1 and won there in 2009 than previously Briton's tenth world title. Since 2010 button is in the British tradition Team McLaren under contract.

Moreover, he denied so far the most Grand Prix races of all British Formula 1 racing driver.

4.1 Career stations
4.2 Statistics in Formula 1 4.2.1 Grand Prix wins
4.2.2 Individual Results

Career

Beginnings in motorsport (1989-1999)

Button started his motor racing career at the age of eight with kart racing after his father John Button had bought him a kart. In 1991, he won the title in addition to all 34 races of the British Cadet Kart Championship. The British Open Kart Championship won button three times before he became the youngest winner in history in the European Super A Championship in 1997.

In 1998 button in the Formula racing and started for Haywood racing in the British Formula Ford, which he immediately won with seven wins. In addition, he finished second in the European Formula Ford Moreover button also ruled the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch in itself, which is one of the most prestigious racing events for young drivers in the UK. In addition, Button was awarded in late 1998 with the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award.

1999 Button joined for Promatecme in the British Formula 3 Championship. Already in his debut race he started from pole position and scored a second place podium placement. Button won three races and finished the season as the best newcomer in third place overall. Team Intern, he sat down with 168 by 45 points against Aluizio Coelho. In addition, button was successful in the international Formula 3 individual events. He was fifth in the Formula 3 Masters and each second behind Darren Manning in the Macau Grand Prix and Korea Super Prix at. In Macau, he lost to Manning with only a residue of 0.035 seconds. He then took part for McLaren Formula 1 test drives. This was his prize for winning the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award. In addition, he also tested for Prost.

Formula 1 (since 2000)

Williams ( 2000)

Before the Formula 1 season 2000 Formula 1 team Williams hosted a duel for the free cockpit, which became vacant after the separation from Williams and Alessandro Zanardi. Button kicked Bruno Junqueira, the reigning champion in Formula 3000, sat by himself and got the cockpit. Button became the hitherto youngest British Formula 1 driver. His team-mate Ralf Schumacher was. At his debut race in Australia, he qualified for the second- last place, but made the race a few good positions and finally fell to sixth place lying with an engine failure. A race later in Brazil Button was considered a sixth and achieved his first point in Formula 1 He thus replaces Ricardo Rodríguez youngest drivers, who had a world championship point brought in Formula 1, from.

In the further course of the season was followed by five more points standings. His best result was a fourth place at the Grand Prix of Germany. At the end of the season Button finished with 12 points in eighth place in the Drivers' World Championship. He defeated Ralf Schumacher, who finished fifth with 24 points.

In August it was announced that Williams would start in 2001 with Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya. Button signed as a result, a two-year contract with Benetton.

Benetton / Renault (2001-2002)

When Benetton succeeded button in his first season only at the Grand Prix of Germany to score points. In addition, he was beaten by his experienced team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella. By season's end button was on the 17th place in the World Cup.

After taking over the Benetton by the French automotive group Renault, Button joined 2002 for the Renault team. His new team-mate Jarno Trulli was. Button came in seven races in the points and two fourth places were his best results. He finished the season starting in seventh place in the drivers' world championship. Counter Trulli, who was eighth, he sat down internally by 14 to 9 points.

Despite his achievements Renault was the middle of the 2002 season, announced that Button would be replaced at the end of the season by the test driver Fernando Alonso. Renault team boss Flavio Briatore designated button at the time as "lazy playboy" ( " lazy playboy ").

BAR / Honda / Brawn (2003-2009)

BAR (2003-2005)

In July 2002, announced button to exit the Formula 1 2003 season for BAR. He received a two-year contract with an option for two more seasons. Button designated BAR team boss David Richards as a decisive factor in his decision. Button won the cockpit of Olivier Panis and was teammate of former world champion Jacques Villeneuve. Button scored - as opposed to Villeneuve - regular points. Villeneuve, who scored only twice, was already replaced by the season finale, the former test driver Takuma Satō. Two fourth places were buttons best results in the season, which he finished with 17 points in ninth place in the drivers' standings.

The 2004 season was by Ferrari, who won 15 of 18 races, dominated. Button became established in the season as the best driver behind the Ferrari drivers Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello. After Button had scored in Malaysia as a third party his first podium placement, and came again in Bahrain in third place, he scored in the fourth race, the Grand Prix of San Marino, his first pole position in Formula 1 and a second place his best finish so far. Two races later, at the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix, Button was able to repeat this result. However, he did not have to this time the Ferrari driver, but his former team-mate Trulli, who still drove for Renault, admit defeat. Later in the season, followed by two more second places, each behind a Ferrari, in Germany and China. In Germany Button had to due to an engine change from 13th on the grid from start, made the race a few positions well and came up with less than ten seconds behind Schumacher to the finish. Button eventually finished the season with 85 points in third place. Internally, he sat down significantly against Satō, who scored 34 points in the season, by.

During the hitherto successful for Button Formula 1 season, he made a contract squabbles headlines: beginning of August 2004 was Williams known to compete in the 2005 season with Button and Mark Webber driving duo. BAR, however, had previously attracted the option button for the 2005 season on time. This dispute, which was called by the media following the Watergate scandal Button gate, went before the Contract Recognition Board, which contract disputes in Formula 1 regulates. This proved Buttons contract and decided on 20 October 2004 that he had a valid contract with BAR for 2005.

Button in 2005 was thus at BAR and formed again with Satō, who was represented illness once by Anthony Davidson, the driver duo. Before the season, there was restructuring in the team: Nick Fry was the new team manager and Honda acquired 45 % stake in the racing stable from the previous individual owner British American Tobacco. After Button had not finished the first three races, he came at the Grand Prix of San Marino in third place. After the race, but both BAR were disqualified, as the team had an illegal fuel tank built into the car, which allowed the underweight ride. The team was then suspended for the next two races. At the Canadian Grand Prix Button scored Although the pole position in the race but fell again. In the tenth race, the French Grand Prix Button started fourth for the first time in the points, and eventually finished all other races in the points. His best results were two third places Germany and Belgium. Button eventually finished ninth overall with 37 points. Internal team he had his teammates Satō, who had scored a point, clearly in control.

During the season, Button was again involved in contract discussions because he wanted to stay at BAR despite the existing contract with Williams. In the course of the dispute in the 2004 option has been set, said that Button would only go at BAR in 2006, when at least 75 % of points in the world championship leader would have on a date. However, this was at no time during the 2005 season of the case and Williams thus had a valid contract with button. However, Button no longer wanted to Williams, who should lose the factory support from BMW as well as their main sponsor Hewlett -Packard for the 2006 season, go and stay with BAR. According to media reports Button paid an indemnity of 15 million euros to get out of his contract with Williams.

Honda (2006-2008)

For the 2006 season, Honda acquired the remaining shares in BAR and named the team to Honda. Button remained with the team and was awarded with Rubens Barrichello, who had become 2002 and 2004 Vice World Champion, a new teammates. After a fourth place finish in the season opener button stood at the Malaysian Grand Prix in third place on the podium. In the third race in Australia Button started from pole position and turned on the last lap in fifth place on the home stretch, when his Honda stopped a few meters before the finish line with engine failure. He was eventually residue still counted with a tenth round, but had no points. In the next race, he succeeded only sporadically to score points. But from the twelfth race he scored in every Grand Prix points. Highlight of the year was the Hungarian Grand Prix, at the button to import his first Formula 1 victory. He was merely gone from 14th place in the rainy race after he had been set back by ten places due to an engine change from the fourth position. At the end of the season Button was a position in front of Barrichello at the Sixth World Cup ranking. With 56 to 30 points, he won against Barrichello.

In the 2007 season, Honda failed to build on the achievements of the previous season. The car was aerodynamically immature and difficult to drive. In the initial stage of the season behind Super Aguri Honda was the second Honda team with Satō and Davidson as pilots dropped. Button it finally succeeded but in three races to score points and allow Honda in the constructors' championship placement before Super Aguri. His best finish he managed at the rain race in China with a fifth. Button was at the end of the season at the 15th place overall. His team-mate Barrichello had no points.

While were on it referring to the driver duo no change in the 2008 season, joined Ross Brawn, the former technical director of Ferrari, as team boss to Honda. Button succeeded in 2008 in only one race, the Spanish Grand Prix in sixth to score points. With three points, he eventually finished the season on the 18 championship course, while Barrichello with a podium placement and eleven points was 14.

Brawn (2009)

Honda, where Button was under contract until 2011, had an early stage focused on developing for the 2009 season and was considered a pioneer in the development of the KER- system that should be used from next season. However, the Honda Group announced in December 2008, surprising the withdrawal of his racing team in Formula 1 is known. The reason dwindling sales figures and the global financial crisis have been specified. Honda planned to sell the team to a prospective graduates, so that it could participate in the 2009 World Cup. In March 2009, finally, a management buyout was officially confirmed under the leadership of Ross Brawn. However, on the Honda engine and developed by Honda KERS, the team had no access, so that the engines were finally delivered from Mercedes.

The team was renamed Brawn GP and next button also Barrichello remained on the team. Although the new team had little time to prepare for the first race, the Brawn drivers achieved in the first test drive the Brawn BGP 001 cars mentioned bests.

At the opening race in Melbourne Brawn confirmed its early form. Button took pole position after qualifying the first victory for the team. Even a week later in Malaysia Button won from pole position in the race, however, was canceled after just under two -thirds of the distance due to heavy rain. Further victories followed in Bahrain, Spain and the prestigious race in Monaco. Button won the seventh race, the Grand Prix of Turkey. He benefited from a mistake Sebastian Vettel, who thereby lost his lead in the first lap button. In the following Grand Prix of Great Britain and Germany, which were held in cold weather, Brawn did not go for the first time with the win and collected with the sixth and five only seven points. Since Red Bull, whose driver duo of Vettel and Webber was decided both races for themselves, melted the points lead in the World Cup together something. Also at the race in Hungary, at the button hoped because of the high temperatures of improvement, it did not work as desired. Seventh place was the result even when following the European Grand Prix on the Valencia street circuit, the team-mate Barrichello won and thus the recovered shape of the Brawn team confirmed. At the Grand Prix of Belgium Button fell after a collision with Romain Grosjean for the first time this season from. Although buttons lead in the drivers' standings from race to race dwindled, he benefited from the fact that the field in this season were tight together and his direct competitor to the world title, Vettel, Barrichello and Webber, caught up only slowly. With a fifth place in the penultimate race, the Brazilian Grand Prix, he finally secured his first world title. With 95 points he had at the end of the season eleven points ahead of the runner-up Vettel.

McLaren (since 2010)

End of 2009, Button was engaged by McLaren for the 2010 season as team-mate Lewis Hamilton and received a contract until the end of 2011. Having finished seventh for McLaren in his debut race, Button overtook the turbulent Grand Prix of Australia in the second race for McLaren 's first victory. After another victory at the rain race in China, which he won ahead of his teammate Hamilton, he took the lead in the world championship, which he kept for another race. Later in the season, Button decided no further races for themselves. At the races in Turkey and in Canada, he came in second place behind Hamilton to the finish and thus contributed to two further McLaren double victories. At the last European Grand Prix in Italy Button was over half of the race lead. However, he was defeated Ferrari driver Alonso, who took first place with an earlier pit stop. Button came in second place to the finish. A race left in the season finally was finally fixed that Button was unable to defend his world title. With a total of seven podium finishes, he finished one position behind Hamilton in fifth place overall in the season.

In 2011, Button in the second race, the Malaysian Grand Prix in second his first podium finish of the season. After two more podium finishes followed in the seventh race, the Grand Prix of Canada, Buttons first win of the season. In the chaotic race Button was dropped six times in the pits and in the meantime the end of the field. Only in the last lap he took the lead after the hitherto leading Vettel made a mistake. Button even became the first rider to win six pit stops, and for the first winner, who in the meantime was in the second half of the race in last place. At his home race, the Grand Prix of Great Britain, Button recorded his first loss of the season after a pit stop error, the mechanic. At his 200th Grand Prix, the Grand Prix of Hungary, Button won against his opponent and won an embossed by changing weather conditions race. In Belgium, Button made from position 13 starting positions, some good and came in third place. In Italy and Singapore, he scored with second places more podium finishes, which he improved in the World Cup second place. At the Japanese Grand Prix he won the third race of the season for themselves. Vettel was ahead of world champion in this race. At the last race of the season in Abu Dhabi and Brazil, Button was third in more times on the podium and consolidated its position in the world championship. He finished the season with 270 points in second place behind Vettel, who scored 392 points. Internally, he sat down with 43 points ahead of Hamilton, who had like button boast three wins through. Button has beginning of October 2011 signed a contract until the end of the 2014 season with McLaren.

2012 Button denied another Formula 1 season as team-mate Hamilton. The season opener in Australia, he led over long distances and scored the winner. At the Grand Prix of Malaysia Button was passed by a collision to the back and came out of the points in 14th place finish. A race later in China, he reached the second place. Due to a faulty pit stop he possessed in the final phase, no more chances to win. In the fourth race in Bahrain Button was heading for points before falling back with a puncture and eventually failed with a technical problem. At the middle of the season in Germany Button scored another podium placement with a second place. Two races later in Belgium, his second win of the season from pole position followed starting. It was his first pole position for McLaren. At the last Grand Prix in Brazil, Button won the race for themselves. At the end of the season, he finished fifth overall. With 188 to 190 points he lost nearly Hamilton.

For the 2013 season with Sergio Pérez Button got a new team-mate at McLaren. In the second race in Malaysia due Button had a different strategy, which should save a stop, good chances for a placement. In his final pit stop but a tire was not properly secured, so that he fell back a round. He abandoned the race just before the end. A race later in China he saved again a stopover. He came in fifth place finish. At the last race of the season in Brazil, he scored with a fourth place his best result of the season. He was awarded 73 points in ninth in the championship and, beating Pérez, who scored 49 points through. Button continued in 2013 for the first time since 2009 without a win and podium placement.

2014 is the Button McLaren driver duo along with the newcomer Kevin Magnussen. With a third place in Australia, he started in the season. After the third race, he finished fifth overall.

Personal

Jenson Button is the famous in the 1970s in the UK Rallycross driver John Button 's son ( 1943-2014 ). Jenson Button has three older sisters, his parents were divorced since 1987. The Christian name of father John Jenson was looking after his mother, Simone Lyons, had already decided on the name of the three common daughters. Born in Denmark, Erling Jensen (father of Formula Ford 1600 pilot Steven Jensen ), a friend of mine Rallycross colleague John Button, became the name sponsor. However, Jensen has been changed to Jenson, because no associations with the car brand Jensen should arise. For Jenson, the friends of the son made later nicknamed " Jense ".

Since 2009, Button is in a relationship with the Japanese model Jessica Michibata. At the beginning of his Formula 1 career Button was with singer Louise Griffiths. The couple separated after a five year relationship in May 2005. Subsequently Button was dating between 2006 and 2008 with model Florence Brudenell - Bruce.

Others

With the introduction of the permanent race numbers in the Formula 1 2014 season Button chose the 22, with this starting number won Button 2009 Formula 1 World Championship.

Statistics

Career stations

2003: Formula 1 ( 9th place)
2004: Formula 1 ( 3rd place)
2005: Formula 1 ( 9th place)
2006: Formula 1 ( 6th place)
2007: Formula 1 ( 15th place)
2008: Formula 1 ( 18th place)
2009: Formula 1 (World Champion )

2010: Formula 1 ( 5th place)
2011: Formula 1 (2nd place)
2012: Formula 1 ( 5th place)
2013: Formula 1 ( 9th place)
2014: Formula 1

Statistics in Formula 1

Status: Bahrain Grand Prix, April 6, 2014

Grand Prix victories

2006: Hungary ( Mogyoród )
2009: Australia (Melbourne )
2009: Malaysia ( Sepang )
2009: Bahrain ( Bahrain)
2009: Spain ( Barcelona)

2009: Monaco ( Monte Carlo )
2009: Turkey ( Istanbul)
2010: Australia (Melbourne )
2010: China ( Shanghai)
2011: Canada ( Montreal)

2011: Hungary ( Mogyoród )
2011: Japan ( Suzuka )
2012: Australia (Melbourne )
2012: Belgium ( Spa -Francorchamps )
2012: Brazil ( Interlagos )

Individual results

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