Has Button’s chance in Formula 1 gone?
Dear Nigel,
I am a huge fan of Jenson Button, and have been since well before he hit Formula 1. I, like many other British fans, am dismayed at the lack of progress – or even negative progress! – at Honda. I felt originally that Jenson had the opportunity to go to Honda and build the team around him, a la Schumacher at Ferrari, and that they would go on to achieve an immense amount. However, here we are again saying “maybe next season…”I know that they now have Ross Brawn, and the new 2009 aero regs should negate Honda’s seemingly boundless confusion over the science of aerodynamics, but given their inability to maximise their vast resources, budget and knowledge base, can anything help them? I would dearly love to see Jenson win the championship he is capable of, but if not Honda, who now at this stage of his career, and with so many younger drivers out there (Vettel, Kubica, Hamilton) will give him the chance?
Scott Chesney
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Dave Cubbedge:
December 15th, 2008 2:35pm
Two reasons why I stopped subscribing to that other great English weekly race mag were because 1.) the greatest motorsports journalist of our generation had come to Motorsport and 2.) got tired of seeing Button on the cover every week with the “can he be World Champ” question asked…
Peter Eccles:
December 16th, 2008 5:22pm
When Button and Alonso drove for Renault we were surprised that Flavio chose Alonso but he got it right.