BAR were subsequently renamed Honda for the 2006 season, during which Button won his first Grand Prix in Hungary, after 113 races.įollowing the withdrawal of Honda from the sport in December 2008, he was left without a drive for the 2009 season, until Ross Brawn led a management buyout of the team in February 2009, and Button suddenly found himself in a highly competitive, Mercedes-engined car. In 2004 he finished 3rd in the World Drivers' Championship, with only the two Ferraris ahead of him. The following year he switched to Benetton, which in 2002 became Renault, and then for the 2003 season he moved to BAR. He first drove in Formula One with Williams F1 for the 2000 season. He was the 2009 Formula One World Champion, driving for Brawn GP.īutton began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British Formula Three Championship. Jenson Alexander Lyons Button, MBE is a British Formula One driver from England currently signed to McLaren.

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