A very happy birthday to British F1 hero Jenson Button. The 2009 title winner was meant to be a stopgap in his first year at Williams, just keeping the seat warm, but he grabbed his opportunity and exceeded all expectations, including his own. Mark Hughes reveals the making of a future champion.
It might seem impudent to run a feature in the pages of Motor Sport on Jenson Button, a 20 year-old Formula One new boy yet to score a podium place. But this is different. This is a story about a phenomenon. His precociousness upset the Establishment; his natural way both with a car and with people made them eat their words. If you're looking for the next Schumacher or Moss, or Mansell or, perhaps closest of all in terms of what he does behind the wheel, Prost he's arrived. Repackaged bright and brash for the new century, but set to be part of that lineage.
He was pushed into the lion's den of F1 from behind a curtain at Barcelona, blinking as the flashlights popped. 'Fleet Street' rubbed its collective hands. A teenie driving for Williams the very team with which 'Our Nige' and 'Demon Damon' had carved out their careers what a fantastic story. In the nick of time, too. With Hill's retirement, and Mansell long since tucked away on his Woodbury golf complex, their job security as F1 reporters had wobbled but was now it was safe...
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