Button thanks Brawn mates.JENSON BUTTON Jenson Alexander Lyons Button, often called Jense, (born 19 January, 1980) is an English Formula One racing driver. He currently competes for the Honda Racing F1 team. He won his first Grand Prix in Hungary, on August 6 2006 after 113 races. will issue a personal vote of thanks to the entire Brawn GP workforce tomorrow after being crowned Formula One world champion. Button is to visit the team's factory in Brackley when the mood will be in stark contrast to the one he experienced just over 10 months ago. On that occasion it was the day after Honda had announced they were pulling out of the sport, and so Button opted to pay a visit in an effort to rally the troops. In truth, it was the 29-year-old who was in need of a tonic tonic, in music: see harmony; key; scale; tonality. as he believed at the time he would not be competing this season. The rest, as they say, is history, with Button and Brawn completing one of the most stunning transformations, certainly in F1 history. It is why his gratitude will know no bounds after his fifth place in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. was enough to give him the title. "I saw pretty much everyone at the party we held that night," said Button. "It was nice to see them, but it was quite busy and I couldn't congratulate them in the way I wanted to. "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. "So I'm at the factory tomorrow and I'm so excited about it. I'm doing some work in the simulator ahead of the race in Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (ä`b  thä`bē, zä–, dä–), Arab. Abu Zabi, sheikhdom (1995 pop. 928,360), c. .
"But mostly it is to see everyone that made this happen, that put this together, spending the day with those people and that will be the special time for me." In reflecting on his championship triumph, Button was able to assess just how his life had turned around from earlier in his career. "As I youngster I used to think about winning the title, I didn't think about the future because you don't," remarked Button. "You're a competitive person, so you just think about winning there and then in that category. "For the last four or five years I've been training I've been thinking about how it would feel to cross the finishing line and to take the chequered chequered or US checkered Adjective 1. marked by varied fortunes: a chequered career 2. marked with alternating squares of colour Adj. 1. flag in a race knowing you are world champion. "That's what has spurred me on with my fitness and with racing, and making racing my life because it does become your life, and you can't win unless it does become your life. "That's something I didn't realise when I started in the sport, and that's why I found it very difficult in my early years in Formula One." |
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