But now to be slightly hypocritical, onto the winner.

The winner lets face in the world of F1 is Brawn GP. As we all know back in March this year, there was no Honda, no Brawn and on the outside, no hope. But in that factory, (that Honda funded to the deal was done BTW), there was more hope than anyone could have comprehended. Yes Nick and Ross both confessed, there were a couple of time where they were standing on the cliff edge, but everyday they put hope into that team that they would be saved, they would have a job, and their car was in fact the best car in F1. So along came Virgin and as mentioned still huge help from honda, and 8 months later they are the happiest team of people in the world.

just imagine working for them. Your job is all but gone, and your F1 dream is all but shattered. But you just knew IF you got the chance, great things could happen. But then, you get the green light, and the race is on!

Australia 29th March, and the F1 world gets the shock of it’s life ( happy shock ). A one/two, and in F1 terms, it was like taking candy from a baby. The team showed what money will never do. It’ll never beat cleverness and balls. Cleverness to see holes in car design regs that you could drive a bus through. Cleverness to implement them and of course the balls to do it. NEVER underestimate an underdog with hope. Ross’s purpose once funding was in place was to show the world, what guts can do and to say to the world ” hey, you should have listened to me about the loopholes, you didn’t and now I’m going to show you why “. Wow what a guy© Red Dwarf!! LOL.

I am just so pleased for the team and just love how they turned the F1 world on its head. Yes it’s a shame so many had to let go, and for them it must hurt. But I’m sure they can be proud they were there making the team what it is today, Championship winners.

And so onto the man Button. Of we all know he’s not a deserving champion!! Yeah only failing to score in ONE EFFING RACE?! Yep he sucks. Winning SIX RACES IN A ROW?! Again the work of someone who sucks. The man who has easily made the best overtaking moves all season?! Oh yes, does that man suck or what?!

That race in Brazil was simply outstanding. For sure good fortune shone his way, but since when in any sport EVAR does fortune not strike? Shit happens and he still would done all that overtaking. If no-one crashed out, he’d win it at Abu and be no less of a driver. Deal with it! Those overtaking move were sublime just like most of his other takes in previous races. That showed the fire was still raging, and it was not just him that was his lack of flare in the second half of the season. Your car aint set up right? You cannot do those No.1 spot qualies. You cannot overtake on the outside with millimeters to spare. You cannot drive round corners when the car just wants to drive straight on. Oh and lets not forget EVERY other team did some incredible improvements, Inc copying the diffuser once that they were told they could.

It’s been a long time coming, and 10 years ago, he did well fro Mclaren. Since then he got a shit car, and there really is only so much you can do with one of those. Even Shuey’s sucky Ferrari way back when sucked with him behind the wheel.

Jenson is a great guy and certainly loved more around the paddock, then Lewis. Though more popular then Rubins? Well know and my heart goes out to him. This was certainly his last chance to take the championship, and to come so close must conjure up so much pain. EVERYONE would have loved for him to take the title, but, at the end of the day, at the most crucial times, he was too slow. Too emotional, as we all saw at times. Like Lewis and Jenson, you need a cool head. Lose that and it starts to go wrong without you knowing. Hell look at Kimi! The bloke’s so laid back he fall over lying on his back! That’s what won him his title 3 years ago. I hope he gets a good seat next year as it’s always a joy to see him race and hear. Just listening to the fans at Brazil when he got pole was just incredible! It’s a magic track and one that greatly benefits being held to the near end of the season. Yeah OK so it’s facilities are erm basic, with just mere portacabins for most teams, and it’s incredibly tight pit area. Just goes to show that Bernie and his cronies daren’t touch Brazil with their big threatening stick and yet his hatred of the BRDC is so apparent with his demands on Silverstone.

I’ve gone on enough so despite some quite incredible incidences by teams, and the FIA all of which still call to question what F1 is really about, it’s been a fantastic year. Yeah so some of the design changes did sod all for overtaking and KERS was ah, about as embarrassing as hell, next year does sound as good as we can expect. Pole really does mean pole. no more ‘overtaking’ in the pits. I for one cannot wait, and despite many morons thinking Brawn will be a one hit wonder ( remember they were redesigning their car all year long ), the funding they’ll get will make for a great car. Besides, whoever is driving the car, Ross and Nick will be driving the team, and that is just fine by me.

“I was up until about four just really lying in bed with a big grin on my face,” Button told reporters at his hotel on Monday, one day after clinching the title at the Brazilian Grand Prix.

“Just time by myself, just relaxing and thinking about what I had achieved. That was the best place for me.

“I only slept for about three hours, I couldn’t sleep for any longer. I just wanted to be awake to enjoy it. I woke up every hour just with a smile on my face.

“I’ve got a few pinch marks on my arm. In my engineering debrief yesterday with Shov (race engineer Andrew Shovlin), we were running through everything and I lent over and I pinched his arm and he squealed like a girl.

“He said ‘what was that for?’ and I said ‘Shov, I’m just making sure you’re awake’. And then…I needed to make sure I was awake so I had to pinch myself as well.

“It’s been such a memorable few days, such a rollercoaster of emotions just even over this weekend. Forget the season, just this weekend,” the Briton was quoted as saying by Reuters.

The newly-crowned world champion said he just wanted time to enjoy his achievement after having spent some 45 minutes at Brawn’s post-race party.

“I think most drivers when they have the possibility of winning the world championship, they go crazy,” added Button, wearing a t-shirt with the message ‘What goes around comes around.’

“They go out and have an absolutely crazy evening. But we all celebrate in different ways and for me to just chill on my own was the best thing for me.

“I obviously wanted to go out and congratulate the whole team, which I did, and then I got home and just relaxed and just took everything in. It was perfect.

“It was great to see all the guys, they were on top form but it was a bit hectic for me. It was just so full on…I wanted a bit of alone time.”

He added: “It’s always difficult in a nightclub to speak to people because it’s so loud and there’s so much going on.

“Everyone’s celebrating but you can’t feel the emotion together. Wednesday will be the time when I see everyone that’s put this together and made this happen and that will be the special time for me.”

Source: Autosport.com

The British squad won both the drivers’ and the constructors’ championships on Sunday using a Mercedes engine, after securing a last-minute deal last year when Honda decided to leave Formula 1.

Despite that, the Mercedes-powered team has gone on to win both titles, while the German manufacturer has won ten races so far thanks to its partnership with Brawn and McLaren.

“It’s very pleasing, I’m very happy for the guys, it’s a fairy tale story,” said Haug, whose company has been linked with a buyout of the Brawn team.

“To get a call on 5 December and then, three months later, to go fastest at Barcelona over a single lap and a race distance, it’s incredible. It’s fully deserved.

“And at McLaren, nobody has scored more points than us in the final part of the season, so we’ve recovered quite well. I think Jenson was strong today, very committed, and he deserved it.

“And it’s car 22 for the second year in a row, two English champions in a row, two Mercedes engines winning in a row and the second time that they champion scored the points he needed by finishing P5 in Brazil.”

Haug, who could supply up to four teams next year, admitted the company was very happy with its image in Formula 1.

“We feel that Mercedes has a very good image,” he added. “People know we are racers and not bulls******* or political. We’re tough racers. We have earned money with our engine leasing and the customers are satisfied.

“We’re absolutely in the plan with the engines. Remember where we were five years ago, or at the start of the 2006 with the V8, and we have had no failures this year. We’re absolutely pleased.”

Source: Autosport.com

Button clinched his maiden title at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday to mark what he believed was a fairytale success for Brawn – whose future in the sport was in doubt when parent company Honda pulled out of the sport last December.

And his father John said he was struggling to fully comprehend the events of the weekend – as Button clinched the title with one race of the season to go.

“It doesn’t seem real at the moment,” he told AUTOSPORT. “It was very emotional obviously in the last few laps when I realised it was going to happen, but now it has all gone. It is really weird. It is really strange.

“I don’t know what is around the corner, what happens when we walk through that door now? I don’t know what is on the other side now that he is world champion. It is going to be really weird because he is just my boy, end of story.”

Button admitted that the trials of the winter following Honda’s decision to quit F1 had been harder for him to deal with than Jenson.

“Well the winter was terrible,” he said. “In front of Jenson I was really positive, but away from him I feared it would all be over now. But he was still young, and I thought: what am I going to do with him? All he knows is racing.

“But he had the faith all the way through. I just could not get it, but he was right. It worked out – and he jumped in a little devil in Barcelona for the first test. He got out of the car after six laps and went: ‘wow Dad’. And here we are. It is not right is it? This is not what happens in F1.”

John Button, who has helped guide his son’s career from karting all the way through to F1, says he has never seen him happier than post-race in Brazil.

“I’ve never known him like it,” he said. “I saw him in parc ferme before he came out, I gave him a squeeze and he locked onto me like a limpet. I could not get him off. It was unbelievable. He was screaming and crying: ‘I am world champion’. That is all it was. No other words at all.”

And John believes that Jenson will be far more relaxed when he hits the track in Abu Dhabi having sealed the title already.

“Yeah, that will be a great race. I spoke to Niki Lauda after the race. He said people do not know how hard it is to win the first world championship, and they change – because they have done it and they have proved that they can do it. It will make a difference.

“Jenson is a world champion forever, not just for one year, and he will be in the history books, which is what I wanted.”

Source: Autosport.com

That is the view of his team owner Ross Brawn, who believes the fact that Button’s season had both high points and low moments will actually have made him an improved man for the future.

Brawn has said he was unsure about Button’s abilities when he arrived at the team, but is now in no doubt about his qualities after observing him close up.

“You don’t until you work with somebody,” said Brawn about how he viewed Button before he arrived at the team. “You have a superficial opinion of them and in 2004 he was giving us a hard time at Ferrari.

“We had a sensational season but he was always there nipping at our ankles. He impressed us then. He made a big impression then. But until you work with people it is difficult.

“Last year was very difficult for me to work with Jenson because of the poor equipment we had. Lots of guys in the team who I respect said, stick with it because he is exceptional.

“And I think going through this experience of the terrific first half and the very tough second half of the season is going to be quite a development in Jenson’s character.”

Although Button has struggled to deliver results in recent races, having not won since the Turkish Grand Prix in June, Brawn believed his stirring drive in Brazil from 14th on the grid to finish fifth showed the kind of grit only title winners are capable of.

“He drove a fantastic race,” explained Brawn. “There were some close calls and a little bit either way would potentially have been the end of it. He drove a fantastic race, and again it is the contrast between a dreadful qualifying and a great race. He drove a race worthy of a world champion today.”

Button admitted after the race that he had felt sick on the Saturday in Brazil when his team-mate Rubens Barrichello secured pole position, and Brawn praised the way the Briton responded.

“There is this persona that people see,” he said. “Last night [on Saturday] he was destroyed. He knew that together with the team he had done a bad job and it was a golden opportunity.

“He went back and he thought, how am I going to turn this around? How am I going to put myself in a position to win the world championship? He came in on race morning really determined and I was impressed.”

And although Button’s future at the team it not yet settled, with he and his team having not yet agreed on financial terms for next year, Brawn says with the world title settled contract talks can now start in earnest.

“We can now sit down and start to sort it out. We missed the window of opportunity to sort it out in the summer, and now this is done, Nick [Fry] and I will be sitting down with the drivers in the next few weeks to sort it out.”

Source: Autosport.com