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  • F1: Button launches his 2010 triathlon charity bid

    Jenson Button needs your help – to help make a success of his 2010 London Triathlon bid and beat last year’s total of nearly £20,000 raised for the children’s charity of which he is a patron.

    Archive, F1
    Formula One, Jenson Button

  • F1: Hamilton and Button win thriller in Canada

    Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button triumphed in an engrossing five-way battle for supremacy at a Canadian Grand Prix dominated by the struggle to manage extreme tyre wear over the 70 laps of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

    Archive, F1
    Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Formula One, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton

  • F1: Button is decorated following trip to the Palace

    McLaren’s Jenson Button has swapped the rough-and-tumble of the Turkey racetrack for a chance to reflect on his achievements of the last year after visiting Buckingham Palace today to receive his MBE.

    Archive, F1
    Brawn GP, Formula One, Jenson Button

  • F1: Red Bull civil war hands victory to Hamilton and Button

    Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were handed a 1-2 finish in the Turkish Grand Prix after Red Bull’s championship-leading rivals Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel tripped over each other fighting for dominance.

    Archive, F1
    Christian Horner, Formula One, Istanbul Park, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber, McLaren, Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel, Turkish Grand Prix

  • Spanish GP preview: Hitting the reset button for Barcelona

    Formula One? What’s that again? It’s been nearly three weeks since the 12 teams and 24 drivers competing in the F1 World Championship have lined up on the grid for a race – and, as far as their fans are concerned, things can’t get going soon enough.

    Archive, F1
    Circuit de Catalunya, Formula One, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber, McLaren, Mercedes GP, Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg, Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel, Spanish Grand prix

  • F1: Button and Hamilton shoulder Red Bull aside for 1-2 win

    Jenson Button got the tyres right in the rain again and turned his third-row start at today’s Chinese Grand Prix into his second win of the season, ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

    Archive, F1
    Chinese Grand Prix, Formula One, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber, McLaren, Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel, Shanghai International Circuit

  • F1: Button wins in Australia as Vettel fails and Hamilton fumes

    Jenson Button took his first victory for McLaren in an incident-filled Australian Grand Prix thanks to a mechanical failure for chief rival Sebastian Vettel and a bravely-timed tyre change that left the rest of the field standing.

    Archive, F1
    Albert Park Street Circuit, Australian Grand Prix, Formula One, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber, McLaren, Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel

  • F1: Red Bull’s Vettel on pole as Button struggles with car

    Sebastian Vettel has thrown down the gauntlet to four world champions with his thrilling curtain-raiser at the Sakhir Circuit in Bahrain today, after parking his Red Bull neatly on pole and challenging the rest of the field to catch him – if they can.

    Archive, F1
    Bahrain Grand Prix, Bahrain International Circuit, Formula One

  • Button and Brawn GP add Laureus awards to 2009 season honours

    Jenson Button and the former Brawn GP team personnel have joined sports stars Usain Bolt, Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters in winning the 2010 Laureus World Sport Award categories in which they were nominated.

    Archive, F1
    Brawn GP, Jenson Button, Mercedes GP, Ross Brawn

  • F1 testing: Button and Schumacher both optimistic after rainy test

    Nico Rosberg topped the timesheets for Mercedes GP at Barcelona today, just a day after his team-mate Michael Schumacher said he didn’t feel the team was in a position to win races – and then declared he had been wrong.

    Archive, F1
    Adrian Sutil, Circuit de Catalunya, F1 testing, Felipe Massa, Jarno Trulli, Jenson Button, Kamui Kobayashi, Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg, Rubens Barrichello, Sebastian Vettel, Sebastien Buemi, Timo Glock, Vitaly Petrov

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