Jenson Button has set his sights on the successful defence of his title, but remains less certain about his path back to the winner’s podium.
Formula One has tossed the refuelling rigs on the scrapheap, souped-up the scoring system and stretched the starting grid and race calendar for 2010.
Roger Federer is in the running to take his fifth sportsman of the year title after being named on the shortlist for the Laureus Sports Awards.
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/ 21 December 2009
Jenson Button, who began 2009 in danger of becoming a dole-queue millionaire, ended it as world champion.
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/ 18 November 2009
World champion Jenson Button has signed to drive alongside Lewis Hamilton for McLaren next year, the Formula One team announced on Wednesday.
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/ 18 November 2009
Ross Brawn on Wednesday advised Formula One world champion Jenson Button to stick with his Brawn team instead of jumping to McLaren next season.
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/ 17 November 2009
Formula One champion Jenson Button has agreed terms on a three-year deal with McLaren and could sign a contract within days, a report said on Tuesday.
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/ 16 November 2009
Mercedes on Monday bought a controlling stake in Formula One world champions Brawn GP in a move which is likely to see Jenson Button join McLaren.
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/ 2 November 2009
World champion Jenson Button said he will be faster and stronger next year after finishing third in Sunday’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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/ 29 October 2009
Huge optimism and end of term fever will grip Formula One this weekend as the global circus comes to the futuristic Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi.
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/ 23 October 2009
It took a while, but through perseverance, patience and humility, Jensen Button is finally at the top, writes Richard Williams.
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/ 19 October 2009
Jenson Button and his Brawn GP team were crowned Formula One champions with a race to spare in an action-packed Brazilian Grand Prix.
Jenson Button has vowed to keep his focus and avoid errors as the race to the Formula One drivers title hots up after the Japanese Grand Prix.
A wet first practice day at the Japanese Grand Prix has done nothing to change Jenson Button’s mindset as he eyes his maiden world championship.
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/ 23 September 2009
Formula One will be desperate to put the damaging Renault race-fixing scandal behind it this weekend as the sport returns to the scene of the crime.
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/ 14 September 2009
A beaming Rubens Barrichello made it clear on Sunday that he will push his Brawn GP teammate Jenson Button all the way to win this year’s title race.
Jenson Button on Monday shrugged off the disappointment of his first non-finish of the season in Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix.
Formula One leader Briton Jenson Button will race with more aggression in a bid to secure victory in this weekend’s Belgian GP.
Sunday’s European Grand Prix is poised to launch a fascinating final stretch of the formula one season.
Sebastian Vettel ran away with the British Grand Prix in a Red Bull one-two on Sunday while Jenson Button laboured to sixth place.
Jenson Button extended his lead at the head of the drivers’ world championship to more than 20 points on Sunday when he cruised to victory.
Brawn GP’s Jenson Button took pole position on Saturday for Sunday’s Malaysian F1 Grand Prix, making it back-to-back poles for the English dr
Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello admit Malaysia’s weather and the Sepang circuit layout will make it tough to repeat their Australian heroics.
Jenson Button left Brawn GP boss Ross Brawn speechless on Sunday after the British driver won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
Defending drivers’ world champion Kimi Raikkonen bounced back to form and back into the scrap for this year’s title when he won the Malaysian Grand Prix for Ferrari on Sunday. But the Italian team’s hopes of a dream one-two finish were wrecked by Brazilian Felipe Massa spinning off while running second.
Ferrari are back on top, Lewis Hamilton is a title contender and two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso is back with Renault. Add night racing to all that and one of F1’s most exciting seasons in 2007 is set for a worthy follow-up in 2008.
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/ 18 December 2007
The 2007 Formula One season went down as one of the most thrilling to date, with a three-way race for the title that ended with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen edging McLaren teammates Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in the tightest race for the drivers’ championship in 21 years.