After a dire history of being in the wrong car in the wrong season, he's finally had some luck. He was teamed up with Ross Brawn and proved many people, myself included, wrong showing that he is actually a very good driver.
He made some very unfortunate decisions in the early-noughties with contract disputes and team moves between Williams and Benetton/Renault and BAR/Honda - each time leaving him in mostly uncompetitive cars and unable to achieve that all-important maiden GP win.
Now he's made another career-changing decision - he had two choices:
1. staying with Ross Brawn, the technical genius behind Benetton in the mid-nineties and Ferrari a decade later not to mention Brawn GP this year.
2. joining Lewis Hamilton at the now more in-form McLaren for more money and an all-British set-up.
He has, of course, gone for option 2 and probably not for the money. The only problem there is - he is not as good a driver as Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton's natural talent has led him to achive what he has at such an early age - Button was young when he started in Formula 1 but was regularly outpaced and out-scored by his team-mates.
Don't forget, also, that Hamilton is also extremely well ensconced within the McLaren team and knows the cars and the personnel inside out, and they know him. If McLaren have a good enough product to win the 2010 Championship, they will win it with Hamilton ably supported by Button - not the other way around.
If Jensen had stayed with Brawn (or Mercedes GP as they are now - including the backing and money that goes with that name) then it was quite realistic for Ross Brawn to pull off another piece of technical wizardry and have back-to-back winning drives.
Jensen's only hope for a 2010 Championship was to stay where he was. I don't mind being proved wrong though.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment