Why Jenson Button is the best F1 driver

Button:
- accident with team mate
- drive through penalty, basically in last place
- gambles with intermediate tyres when others are on wets and climbs through the field
- safety car then race stopped for like 2 hours
- climbs through the field, hits alonso and gets a puncture ends up basically last AGAIN
- Climbs through the field AGAIN
- Safety car
- Overtakes webber and schumacher who are racing really really really well
- Zooms off on a dry track out pacing vettel by a mile
- Scares Vettel off the road and wins

Vettel:
- Wins races by starting first and just pointing the car in the right direction for 2 hours
- When he gets challenged properly, falls off the tarmac

Conclusion:
- Button much much much better driver than Vettel will ever be.
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imo f1 is so boring to watch :)
needs more wrecked cars. Just like in Nascar
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chive pic-cropper chickjournal noob
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Just throwing this out there, best ass pic I have probably seen! :P
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nice job today by him , but doesnt make him the best driver because he and his Team were doing a good job for one single race. RedBull is the best Team atm and they good the best driver so far , otherwise Vettel wouldnt be on Top of the Championship.
vetel is only good because his car is good/"much better than everyone else's" although he is a talent don't get me wrong.

However in terms of racing, Button has come through the field so many times in so many different conditions. The best examples are this race and the Brazilian GP in 2009 when he won the championship where Button came from 14th to 4th. He does it time and time again.

In terms of raw speed and qualifying, Vettel is better. In terms of consistency, fun, driving skill, over taking skill and entertainment Button is better.

McClaren aren't being a very good team at the moment, they're making silly errors recently.
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+1 vettel just quick, but he'll be a better racer with experience tho so he has the potential of being one of the greats!
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aint it McLaren?
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omg did u see him racing in the last round when button was hunting him?
buttons car was just better and vettel gased out the shit of his car. he had no chance so either he does a mistake or he'd be overtaken by button. so he did a mistake...

was a great moment by both of them!
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QuoteThe best examples are this race and the Brazilian GP in 2009 when he won the championship where Button came from 14th to 4th.


wasnt this the time when Button was driving for that newly made team, which had an advantage over the other racing teams?
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Brawn GP. And Yes.
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HA WIE DER GEMB ES WEIß!
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The only two times all season vettle has been challenged by the mclaren boys he buckles and fails.
shame their car isn't very fast in the other races :(
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didn't see today, but the one stop strategy vettel did last race was pretty awesome. And he did get challenged there so :S
Vettel is just really fast, and not as good a 'racer' as alonso/button/hamilton. Still very consistant and very fast.

Even tho button is overall a better driver i guess, easier on the tires and the car etc.
i guess ud only know if all had the same car..
well that depends because one car might suite one driver more than others plus surely there is a skill of winning with a 'bad car'. I think the only way you can really tell is by racing, racing, racing, racing and more racing with lots of cars and teams. Imo though Button is more entertaining.
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so what do you think about schumacher?

was he just a good driver when he won all those titles or was it because of his good car?

im interested in your answer :o
he had the best car, but certainly was the best driver anyway (but the number of titles wouldnt have been so high if he didnt drive for ferrari)
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ok thanks for the info :)
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u could also just watched the last gp before he left F1 was just amazing
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i used to watch f1 a lot when he was still with ferrari, but cant remember much of that time.

just can remember the time when he had a double win together with barichello where they drove next to each other and barichello won it :D was pretty funny.
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vettel did fend off hamilton for a number of laps in the spanish gp even though hamilton had 30% more kers power and drs.

The poles might make it easier for him but it doesn't guarantee a win by any means and i think he did a great job so far managing his laptimes/car and keeping it all together. It's just not as much fun to watch but you can't really blame him for that
(and im no vettel fan)

(and if you want be be entertained watch kobayashi or petrov (or even alonso), they're more aggresive than button most of the time)
true, kobayashi is fun to watch :p
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cause hes sexy :x
The safety car was actually in Buttons advantage since Vettel couldnt get a lead on Button while he was climbing up the field
thats why I thought at first this is sarcastic journal :D
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excited much?
the germans whipe the track with you guys so enjoy it while it lasts... or more like be enjoy it now as it will never happen again.
Good race, not the best driver by a LONG way.
still prefer watching hamilton even though hes a dick, much more entertaining to watch someone who goes for overtakes all the time
i still think alonso is the best driver on the grid. then theres hamilton who risks whenever he can, and eventho i dont like him because hes selfish prick, i love to watch him racing. after them there would be button-kobayashi-vettel-webber because they dont do a lot of mistakes if you compare them to the rest of the grid.

kubica is the only one whos skills where comparable to alonsos i think, but we cant tell how is he going to drive after the comeback ~.~
F1 got boring when Häkkinen retired.
Yeah thats pretty much also my opinion, coming from a Schumacher fan. :)
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i wish them: die in carfire
Biased reasoning :D
vettel is very young and button has been with f1 for a long time already. saying vettel will never be better than button is just wrong.
Awesome race, really happy for Button, i'm personally more of a Hamilton fan because i think he is the best racing driver in F1 along with Alonso, closely followed then by Vettel and Button
Button, Alonso, Hamilton, Webber, Vettel

thats the order for me at the moment, but I am a Button fan.
Button, Alonso and Hamilton are proper racers for me, Vettel is just fast when no cars challenge him and Webber is good but not good enough enough of the time
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Hamilton is quicker than Button, that much is clear, Hamilton has the ability to get performance out of the car that Jenson simply can't. Alonso equally is great at doing that. Jenson i think is the best overtaker out there but cant consistently do the lap times hamilton can. Webber shouldn't be mentioned in the same group as those above even though i do like the go... even though he is an aussie :D
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Hamilton is too hot headed at the moment though :(
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Button is very good, but not as good as some of the others. I admire his fluent driving style though. It's amazing how someone can be so fluent and "cautious" and still go very fast.

Top drivers imo:
(1) Schumacher (he's not at the top of his game anymore, but like he showed yesterday, he's still amazing)
2. Alonso
3. Vettel
4. Hamilton
5. Button/Rosberg/Massa

It's very close though, especially between Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton.
2009:
Button:
- Wins races by starting first and just pointing the car in the right direction for 2 hours
- When he gets challenged properly, falls off the tarmac

Räikkönen:
- chilling

Point is that the only reason button still drives is Ross Brawn.
You know that he was the longest guy driving without victory until 2009 or somethin like that?
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