bwin Sportsblog - Motor Sport - Brilliant Button

If anyone doubted the credentials of Jenson Button as World Champion then they only had to watch yesterdays race to see that he drove like a true champion. I myself have doubted his mental strength but after all the dust has settled, you kind of got the feeling that this was all part of some articulately well laid out plan. This was a very open world title race in terms of the quality of the drivers and the cars that they had. Button got away to an amazing start, so good that he could control things from where he was. With four races to go, I still felt that Button had to do something and he did do something......he simply did enough. The other drivers were sharing wins, Barrichello, Vettel, Webber and Hamilton and this all helped Button. I don't think that Brawn will enjoy the same early success next season but to win the constructors and the drivers championship in your first season is nothing short of amazing. I was glued to the race from start to finish and the early daring overtaking moves by Button were a joy to behold. Button was in the groove for the title anyway but when Hamilton overtook Barrichello and then in the process clipped him, that was the end of the title race as that move left Barrichello with a punture that left him in eighth place, three places behind Button. It has been a strange season in many ways, I cannot remember a season where the World Champion has gone so many races without a win and a podium finish. But the amount of hard work that Brawn have put in over the winter has been amazing. It was only several weeks before the season started that they found out that they would be a grand prix team at all this season. The chances of Jenson Button winning the BBC sports personality of the year award must now be very short indeed. see you soon Carl "The Dean" Sampson