Talk:Jenson Button/Archive 1

Archive 1

format etc

I've added the 2005 season to the table at the bottom, but this doesn't seem to match (m)any of the other drivers - should this be in this format? Happy to redo if necessary, someone let me know in here... NickF 22:12, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Continuation

Jenson and teammate Takuma Sato were DQ'd for underweight cars...

...at San Marino.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.137.95.102 (talk • contribs)

100th Race Start

Button will start his 100th race start in the 2005-China race. But according to wikipedia when doing the math by adding all Button race starts it would be his 101st race start in China as Button has been listed as Ret instead of DNS for this year 2005-USA race. Andreasu 03 October 2005 12:02

FHM Quotes

I haven't got the exact quotes, but Jenson said something about women drivers in F1 to FHM. Does anyone have the actual quotes, i can't remeber them, i don't read FHM and I got this of my motorsport info sources. Duke toaster 18:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC) yeah i remember this .,

it was to do with bernie eccolstones comments and jenson said women werent emotionally able to drive as what would happen when they had their period. i thought it was in F1 racing though not in FHM — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minnii93 (talk • contribs) 01:20, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Count 50 & Start

In '02, JB became the youngest driver with 50 F1 starts (or so I heard...). Trekphiler 08:54, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

In the garage?

I'm sorry, but if Jenson cannot talk about non-Honda cars that he owns then we can't say he owns them! I'm removing that and the part about him being good-looking as completely irrelevent. If anyone wants to discuss this I am quite happy to do so.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Suzanne03 (talk • contribs)

Congratulations

I know Jenson doesn't read this (or maybe he does...anyway) a very big congratulations on winning in Hungary. It was long overdue and he fully deserved it after so many years of being probably the unluckiest driver in F1. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.177.28.141 (talk • contribs)

Results table

I have removed the "EX" from the two races in 2005 that BAR were banned from entering. The team was excluded, not the drivers. Bretonbanquet 21:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Season 2006

Can someone please edit this part of the article to conform more to the previous formats? Thanks. Mogweist 23:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Bristol City?

It says in the article that Jenson Button is a Britsol City fan, however, there is no reference for this. Secondly, according to this interview he is a big Arsenal fan. Now, I know that this is vaguely allowed in an article, but then again most people who follow F1 also follow Football (and I mean most, not all!) so it could be considered to be allowed into the article.

Comments? --Phill ^{talk Edits} _{Review this GA review!} 12:10, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Monaco

'Most' F1 drivers live in Monaco ? Evidence ?

Bigfatspider 20:04, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

he owns an apartment in Monaco — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minnii93 (talk • contribs) 01:21, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Gents or Jense?

Shouldn't Jenson's nickname 'Gents' be 'Jense'? I've actually seen the latter in writing, but never the former. Lustigson (talk) 15:32, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

It's been fixed. DH85868993 (talk) 08:35, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

61.88.183.103 (talk) 09:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC) Corrected Rubbish Grammer.

Rephrasing needed?

"Button was engaged to English pop singer and actress Louise Griffiths for two years. Their relationship ended in April 2005, and his socialising with friend David Coulthard became tabloid fodder." Sounds a bit like Button had a sexual relationship with Coulthard. Perhaps some rephrasing is in order? — Cheers, Truth's Out There ^–talk– 14:17, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Doesn't sound that way to me. Going to the pub with Coulthard sounds a lot less stressful than dating a pop singer/actress. Maproom (talk) 21:16, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

lol — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.17.119.162 (talk) 20:02, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Is there any notability in the period between recording first and second wins?

Button took from November 2006 to March 2009 to record first and second F1 wins. Given that 1st wins are usually quickly followed by the 2nd, since the car is competitive or the driver at the top of their game, is it unusual to have a gap of two intervening seasons between wins? Is there any stats for this or other drivers to refer to? LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:53, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps surprisingly, it's not as uncommon as you might think. Of the 11 other drivers who have 2 F1 victories, 5 of them (de Angelis, Siffert, Rodriguez, Trintignant and Gonzalez) had more than two seasons between their two wins. And if we look at drivers with more than 2 wins, Regazzoni had 4 years between his first 2 wins; Andretti had 5 years, and doubtless there are other examples. DH85868993 (talk) 11:39, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Andretti? Mario, presumably (did Michael last 5 years?), which is something of a shock (as is Clay, for that matter). LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:06, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Mario Andretti's first win was March '71, the second was in October '76... ! Bretonbanquet (talk) 22:09, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

And we're still waiting for Michael's first win... -- Ian Dalziel (talk) 22:25, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Pay cut

Perhaps it could be mentioned that Jenson took a large pay cut from his Honda contract during the management buy-out that created Brawn? -137.222.114.243 (talk) 12:13, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Find us a reference and you could add it. Chubbennaitor 16:34, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

JENSON BUTTON £12M PAY CUT -That was price of keeping his drive with Brawn [[1]] 91.210.101.9 (talk) 14:56, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Structural Changes

I've just gone through the article and cut out quite a lot of what I think is inappropriate structure. The article was tending towards the situation in which paragraphs were often only one or two sentences, and sections only one or two paragraphs. I think this really breaks up the text, making it hard to read as an article, although easy to pick out individual points, and does not match what some (not all) of our F1 Featured Articles look like (See Damon Hill and Brabham). Others do use a similar device, but not as actual headers (Alain Prost and Tom Pryce). Might be useful to discuss here if anyone feels strongly the other way. If you feel really, really strongly, put the headings back and then we can discuss it. Cheers. 4u1e (talk) 18:05, 20 June 2009 (UTC)