Comments on: F1 – Button/McLaren Picking up Steam

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:18:08 +0000

Agreed Max, I dont see how Jenson can win if this is the way he chooses. He proved during the second half of the year that the talent was soley based on that cars first seven races. he has no talent compared to Lewis (did i just say that?!?!)

By: Max Roper

Max Roper — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:55:52 +0000

Personally i’d drive an F1 car for free, but I guess the novelty’s worn off for Jenson now! It certainly would be nice to see a British pairing at Mclaren. I can’t see Jenson being happy for long though, he has stated that he wants to keep winning races, good luck against Lewis Hamilton in the same car as him! And that’s a car that will most certainly continue to be engineered around Lewis, which is much of the reason why Heikki, a very good driver, was made to look completely inferior this year.
Btw Doug, that’s British driving talent + British engineering. Mclaren are obviously a British team and based in Woking, and Mercedes hpe (formally Ilmor-Mercedes) in Brixworth!

By: Doug Patterson

Doug Patterson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:46:32 +0000

Couldn’t have said it better, Eric. Button took a pay cut to stay at Brawn, and now Brawn is refusing to give Button his due credit and reward for earning them a WDC *AND* WCC in their first year of existence? Much respect has been lost for Brawn here. Personally, I’d love to see two Brits driving those beautiful silver cars. British driving talent + German engineering = happy race fan.

By: Eric Brewer

Eric Brewer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:27:12 +0000

Say what you want about JB’s talent, but World Champions deserve World Champion money. Seems to me that Button would have to put up or shut up as a teammate to Lewis, who I don’t think anyone argues is a truly great driver. Plus, and people smarter than me could help me out here, wouldn’t LH still be the “number one” guy on the team. Braun should just step up and pay the man his dough on a single year deal to keep the champ in their camp. Did I just type that out loud? Holy Cow that was lame. See ya.