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Jenson Button: Finally in the Car to Give Him That British Win?

 
Ok, so you could argue that Jenson has already won his home Grand Prix…..in Monaco. However, he is yet to win the really special home race….the British Grand Prix.  The 2009 British Grand Prix marks a number of Anniversaries for Brawn GP’s Jenson Button. It will have been twenty years since the young Briton first raced at Silverstone in Karts, a decade since his first race on the full grand prix circuit, and his tenth British GP as a driver in Formula One. More significantly, this will be the first British race in his F1 career that Jenson has a strong chance to win. However, Jenson’s past British Grand Prix have produced a mix bag of results. So here's a quick re-cap of his ‘home’ GPs so far and an assessment of his chances of winning next weekend.  It’s 2000, and whilst his future team mate qualified in an impressive pole (Rubens Barrichello), Jenson managed a surprising, yet thoroughly well deserved sixth. This was in a Williams and just ... (link)

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