"Well Done Button" Topic
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| freewargamesrules | 18 Oct 2009 12:24 p.m. PST |
Jenson Button new Formula 1 World Champion taking over from Lewis Hamilton. Excellent race in Brasil too. |
| Cufflink | 18 Oct 2009 1:54 p.m. PST |
I'm really chuffed for Button. Unlike certain other drivers, he's had to suffer with some lousy cars over the years. He's a worthy world champion, and I'm glad he won it with that charge in Brazil, rather than hoping for other results to go his way. |
| Last Hussar | 18 Oct 2009 4:54 p.m. PST |
To pre-empt the moaners "he only won the first 6, then did nothing" I would point out if the results had been the other way round (ie all his wins at the end of the season) everyone would be going 'wow what a recovery'. Pity he is a tax exile. |
| By John 54 | 19 Oct 2009 3:21 a.m. PST |
Really chuffed for the bloke, fantastic race, too. Feel sorry for Barrichello, always the bridesmaid! surely his last chance of a title is over now. Button was the most consistant, over the season, and has paid his dues over the years, and is a worthy world champion, and he drove like a man possessed, I was pacing up and down screaming NOOOOOOOO! at some of those do-or-die Banzai overtakes! NOW, next season, 4 world champions, all in good cars?, how great is THAT going to be! John |
| Last Hussar | 20 Oct 2009 6:00 p.m. PST |
What is less well known, though, is that the car is, in the words of my source, "a botch job".It was designed for a Honda engine, and it was not until December that the team knew they would be using a Mercedes. That necessitated some pretty crude changes. "The chassis had the back six inches cut off to fit the engine in – the sort of thing you wouldn't normally do even with a test car," says my source. "And the gearbox was in the wrong place because the crank-centre height is different. There's a massive amount of compromise in the cars."
Whole article at the BBC
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| Smokey Roan | 21 Oct 2009 1:24 p.m. PST |
I just met that British (or is he New Zealand or Australian) Indy Car champion (or frontrunner) in Miami. Nice guy, forgot his name. Lewis? |
| By John 54 | 23 Oct 2009 10:54 a.m. PST |
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| Palafox | 23 Oct 2009 1:20 p.m. PST |
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| By John 54 | 01 Nov 2009 4:01 p.m. PST |
So, the end of a GREAT season, bit of a dull race to end on, though, all that money can't buy you a great race, the whole thing had an 'end of term' feel about it. only 135 days til the new season!!!!! John |
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