Jenson Button is the 2009 world champion

[Tee]

He will hardly be remembered as a great F1 Champion, but despite that he has managed to achieve his career goal which must feel ****ing amazing! Agree that he is a bit of a knob, and no doubt will become an even bigger bellend after this weekend.

[tommyg]

First corner of the first lap then i'm done on most races

[Gerrard]

Yep Button strikes me as a total prick, in one of the most pointless and boring 'sports' in the world. ****e.

he is an a grade cunt

[Gaz]

I'm obviously in the minority here but i love F1 and think it's great that our British Drivers and Teams are doing so well.

Jenson really deserves the World Championship after sticking by Honda and BAR when he could have gone else where. He was just in a different league at the start of the year and that drive in Brazil deserved to win him the championship.

Interesting Rumours that he could be going to McLaren as Brawn may struggle to meet his £6m wage demands, that would be easy for McLaren as they already pay Hamilton £15m, it would be great to see him and Lewis racing each other in the same cars

[Pedenj]

I don't know if Jenson could have gone elsewhere, before this season started there was nobody really trying to sign him up and looked like he would be out of the sport.

Well done for winning the championship but I don't think that he was the best driver out there, the others lost it if you ask me.

I wonder if Button is confident to go head to head with Lewis though, who is a lot more talented and could show Button up quite a lot if they are in the same car and only one of them ends up getting results.

[Aza]

I think this season has shown that there's not a lot between the top drivers.

It's only how good the car is that separates the winner from the man in 5th or 6th place.

I'd love to see Button go head to head with Hamilton next season; bring it on

[Mike]

New world champion Jenson Button has emerged as a contender to join Lewis Hamilton in what would be a mouth-watering line-up at McLaren in 2010.
The Englishman has yet to sign a new contract for Brawn and McLaren are interested having so far failed to secure first choice Kimi Raikkonen.
"We've talked to a number of drivers," said team boss Martin Whitmarsh.
"It wouldn't be appropriate to say more than that. We'll hire the two best drivers available as we always have."
Button's manager Richard Goddard refused to comment on whether he had held talks with McLaren, but told BBC Sport: "Brawn could have sorted Jenson out weeks ago and none of this would be going on.
"We've been trying to agree terms with them. He's made it clear he wants to stay and had they agreed a contract there would be no speculation.

"The press will speculate that anyone with a free seat next year will be offering Jenson a drive - he has displayed his great talent in a good car this year.
"That speculation won't die until Brawn offer him new terms.
"A lot of quality seats may still be available so it's down to Brawn to make us an offer. But this stuff certainly did not stem from us."
Raikkonen, who is also being chased by Toyota after being forced to leave Ferrari to make way for Fernando Alonso, has not yet decided on his future and McLaren are exploring other possibilities.
Their back-up plan if Raikkonen turned them down was to retain his fellow Finn Heikki Kovalainen, despite their reservations about his performances in races.
But following Button's failure so far to agree terms on a new contract with Brawn, they are now understood to be interested in him - which would put the two most recent world champions, and two Englishmen, in one highly marketable line-up.

The Button-McLaren link first emerged in two national newspapers on Friday but it is understood there is substance in the story.
Button said on Tuesday that he wanted to stay with Brawn but that the team had yet to start substantive negotiations on a new deal.
Sources in F1 say the two parties have so far failed to agree on Button's salary.
He took a pay cut from £10m to about £3m over the winter to help secure the survival of Brawn, who emerged from the ashes of the Honda team after the Japanese company decided to quit F1 last December.
But now he is world champion he is said to be looking for a pay rise more substantial than the one Brawn are offering.
McLaren, one of the better funded teams on the grid, would be able to pay more money than Brawn.
Button may also consider that McLaren are likely to have a faster car than Brawn in 2010, having already overtaken them for pace this year despite a poor start to the season.

But Button might be wary of teaming up with Hamilton, who is widely regarded as the out-and-out fastest driver on the grid.
Cynics will claim that the Button-McLaren link could have been leaked for one of two reasons.
It could be either a means for Button to get Brawn to up their offer to him, or it could be a way of McLaren trying to persuade Raikkonen to make up his mind.
In the background, there is also the fact that McLaren's long-term engine partner Mercedes is considering buying a large stake in the Brawn team, a move that is not popular in some parts of McLaren.

[Gerrard]

I'd love to see Button crash into a wall - minus helmet

the smug prick

[Mike]

I like him

[carheex]

"Big" congrats to button for being equipped with a faster car than anyone else.

[Guest]

"Big" congrats to button for being equipped with a faster car than anyone else.

Proof that you don't know what you're talking about. Those guys have to make a thousand of 'split second' decisions during the course of a race and it's by no means a given to have an excellent car. You still have to drive it to perfection, as Formula 1 is very competitive.

[Mike]

Button didnt win because of his car, he was the best diver this season, thats why he has the championship.

[Scratch]

Button didnt win because of his car, he was the best diver this season, thats why he has the championship.

No, he won because of his car, it's as simple as that. In the first half of the season, the Brawn car was untouchable, so the only person Button had to beat was his inept team mate.

[carheex]

Proof that you don't know what you're talking about. Those guys have to make a thousand of 'split second' decisions during the course of a race and it's by no means a given to have an excellent car. You still have to drive it to perfection, as Formula 1 is very competitive.

LOL - the fastest car wins (or at the very least has a massive advantage) every year you big goon!