The first ever Abu Dhabi GP didn’t really live up to all of the off-track bluster once the race actually got going, until about two laps to go when Jenson Button got close enough to second place man Mark Webber for a bit of an on-the-edge ding-dong.
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Lewis poles in
at 4:02 pm on Saturday October 31, 2009 26 Comments
Well it wasn’t the all-British front row that we’d hope for, but McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton stuck his car on pole position for the inaugural Abu Dhabi GP, the last race of the year.
Hamilton vs Button
at 1:04 pm on Friday October 30, 2009 36 Comments
Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton traded places at the front during the first practice session at the inaugural Abu Dhabi GP this morning, and it was good.
Button is king!
at 7:34 pm on Sunday October 18, 2009 231 Comments
They said that Jenson Button would, at best, limp to the World Drivers’ Championship title at the next race in Abu Dhabi, but he proved the critics wrong with a breathtaking drive at the Brazilian GP.
Pain in the rain
at 9:01 pm on Saturday October 17, 2009 89 Comments
Jenson Button will have been watching the last part of qualifying for the Brazilian GP from behind his hands, hoping that teammate and title rival Rubens Barrichello wouldn’t get too high up on the grid.
Boys from Brazil
at 5:19 pm on Friday October 16, 2009 43 Comments
If today’s first practice at the Brazilian GP is anything to go by, then this weekend’s race could prove to be nearly as manic as last year’s.
WDC for JB?
at 5:10 pm on Wednesday October 14, 2009 45 Comments
This weekend is the big one. Or at least, this weekend could be the big one. Will Brawn GP’s Jenson Button be World Drivers’ Champion come Sunday night?
Bernard’s medals
at 3:30 pm on Wednesday October 7, 2009 33 CommentsInterestingly, if Bernie Ecclestone’s plan of awarding gold medals to race winners had been in place this season, Jenson Button would have wrapped the Championship up after the Singapore GP the other week.
