Jenson Button celebrated his first Formula 1 world championship alone in his Sao Paolo hotel room, just lying on a bed smiling.
“I was up until about four just really lying in bed with a big grin on my face,” Button told reporters at his hotel on Monday, one day after clinching the title at the Brazilian Grand Prix. “Just time by myself, just relaxing and thinking about what I had achieved. That was the best place for me…Â Details
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Even now Jenson Button is the Formula 1 world champion, there are those questioning whether he is worthy of the crown.
Because he has been around F1 since 2000, a certain perception of him has built up – and people hate letting go of their preconceptions.
How can this guy they have never particularly rated suddenly be a world champion? How can a driver who took until his seventh season to even win a race really be mentioned in the same breath as such instant legends as Fernando Alonso or Lewis Hamilton?  … Details
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Jenson Button clinched the 2009 Formula 1 world championship by coming through to fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix, as Mark Webber took a comfortable victory for Red Bull.
Sebastian Vettel made it up to fourth from 15th on the grid, but that …Â Details
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Former Renault boss Flavio Briatore will begin his fight against a lifetime ban from motor racing on Monday when he takes the matter to the French courts.
Briatore is set to lodge papers at the Tribunal de Grand Instance in Paris to try and cancel the lifetime ban that was handed to him by the FIA as the result of his involvement in Renault’s race-fixing controversy at …Â Details
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