Comments on: Official: Button to McLaren! The British Dream?

By: Nelson DB

Nelson DB — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:43:32 +0000

Time will say, for now compairing drivers in the same car, which is a good measure (even if somebody could say there is always difference of treatement in the same team) we can remember Lewis was as strong as Alonso at his debut, and far more strong than Kovy,while Button struggled in the past against Fisi, who struggled in the same car with Kovy, and Button was pairing Barrichello, except this year. So it’s difficult to imagine Jeanson beating Lewis, it could happens sometimes but it seems to me a situation like the Senna- Berger pairing, instead of the Senna- Prost situation, with the due differences (Lewis isn’t still Senna..)

By: mini696

mini696 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:38:02 +0000

Rumours are out that Jensen lost the chance at a $12M contract with Merc due to breach of contract (visiting McLaren factory).

By: ubergreg

ubergreg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:35:33 +0000

Can’t blame Button for jumping to what will likely be the strongest team on next year’s grid.

We can all see the logic in him staying at BRAWN GP, but what about MERCEDES GP? He wouldn’t be staying at his current team; he’d effectively be joining a new one. Does anyone really think Jenson would be treated as Number One at a German team that also includes Nico Rosberg? Perhaps he’d rather be a ‘Number Two’ at a British team with a top tier car, than a Number Two at a German team with a car that may not be as competitive out of the starting gate, and where the spotlight will be completely off him.

He knows what he’s up against in having Hamilton as a teammate, and probably realised that, on balance, it was the better option for his career. At least he’ll get more headlines as one half of a British ‘dream team’. He gets a decent wage and almost certainly a ‘top three’ car. He’ll get top billing in the press and, I think, he could probably endear himself to the MacLaren staff more completely than Hamilton can manage.

I think Jenson made the right move, all things considered. He’s not the better driver, but he will win a lot of hearts at MacLaren and give Lewis a much harder time than Heikki.

By: Rafa

Rafa — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:48:51 +0000

Well I´ll be darned!! It turns out now that everybody saying that McLaren was the fairest team of all, giving drivers equal treatment and whatnot, fears that poor Jenson might not be getting that treatment despite his being a WDC, because in macca everybody´s for Hamilton. It really took the announcement of a British driver alongside Hams for English people to start realizing how one sided a team Macca is after all!! Weeeeell!! Let´s see how Supersmoooooth Jenson copes with a car designed with and for Hamilton. Is it only me, or does anybody else think that that even Jenson knows that he can´t compete with the likes of Vettel, Hamilton, Alonso et al unless he´s got a far superior machine, and sensing that this year he would not count with such an advantage, he´s gone for the biggest buck he could muster. Astute, but hardly inspiring Mr button!!

By: fulcrum

fulcrum — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:34:09 +0000

I don’t know guys. I just don’t see Lewis being such a superior driver to Button. If Jenson manages to have anything close to “equal treatment”, that means not having McLaren “racing Jenson” and actively trying to slow him down… he might have a fighting chance…