posted Nov 17, 2007

It will be nice to see him get a good car and for him to be fighting with Lewis Hamilton.

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posted Nov 19, 2007

How much drivers earn, how hard they work and the success and commitment that a team's principals demonstrate is EXACTLY the point, I'd say. There is clearly something wrong at Honda; so much so, that JB felt constrained to speak out.

The elements that contribute to a team’s success are the performance of the drivers, the cars, the pit crews and the other team members and the performance of the team management. The performance of the drivers depends on their confidence in the car, the other team members and particularly of the management, including the amount they are prepared to pay the driver. The performance of the car depends on the choice of engine, fuel and tyres, as well as on its design, its driver, the pit crews and the set-up technicians. All of these elements are overseen by the management, who are also responsible for motivating everyone and getting them to gel as a team. If any one of these elements is wrong, then responsibility lies with the team management.

Button earns a good wage, so no lack of motivation there. He has always struck me as a driver prepared to commit himself to a race, so no problem on work-rate. So we must look at the other areas for the cause of Honda’s lamentable performance this past season. My money would be on underperformance by the team management. Their job is to get the best out of every constituent element of the team, from the design of the engine all the way through to the choice and performance of the driver and pit crews.

Whatever it is, it's not being satisfactorily addressed, giving Button just cause for complaint.

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posted Nov 22, 2007

some obviously fail to realize how long jensen has been in f1, and how little he has achieved, not all the blame lies on hondas shoulders.

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posted Nov 22, 2007

Button will never be champion.Hasn't got what it takes.

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posted Nov 22, 2007

The last two posters are clueless.

Remember:

1. He is the same age as Kimi.
2. He is very highly regarded in the paddock by engineers and principals.
3. He is one of the best drivers in the current F1 scene.
4. It only takes one lucky break in F1 for everything to change.

Jenson is far from finished.

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posted Nov 27, 2007

I think the comparison between Jenson and Kimi is abit flawed

1. He is the same age as Kimi.
(Okey may be true)
2. He is very highly regarded in the paddock by engineers and principals.
(Okay so he is highly regarded.... but peope need to see performance ... race wins not just being highly regarded)

3. He is one of the best drivers in the current F1 scene.
(That remains to be seen.... best drivers need to appear on the podiums that how we fans can know that a driver is one of the best..... and we need a driver who is the best)

4. It only takes one lucky break in F1 for everything to change.
(We still waiting for his early break.... remember even with rotten luck Kimi was doing great in winning races and competing highly against some of the best like Schumacher)

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posted Nov 28, 2007

Following Jenson Button’s shock announcement that he will quit F1 if the performance of his Honda does not improve within the next two years, further details are emerging of other decisive actions the dynamic British driver is prepared to take in order to get results.
F1 spies say that only this week the Brit ace was spotted issuing a similarly firm ultimatum in a London cinema. ‘Button was watching Die Hard 4.0 but he clearly wasn’t impressed,’ said one fellow movie goer. ‘I definitely heard him loudly saying in a politely quiet voice that if the film didn’t get better then he was flipping well going to wait until the end and then leave’.
Just hours earlier another motorsport fan reported seeing the West Country driver in a nearby restaurant expressing disappointment with the table he had been given. ‘Button wasn’t messing around,’ said one fellow diner. ‘He made it moderately clear that if he wasn’t given a better table he would eat his main course and some pudding and maybe a coffee and then bloody well think about leaving’.
However, it now seems that Button isn’t the only one issuing dire warnings for the future. Many British F1 fans, for example, have threatened to completely lose interest in Jenson Button within the next… oh.

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posted Nov 28, 2007

Hautine

The only comparison I made with Kimi was age - the others were between Jenson and the rest of the F1 drivers.

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