Jenson Button: “My title was the perfect story – they need to make a movie of it”

F1 Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Our guest this week is someone who lived through one of the sport’s biggest fairy tales when, in 2009, he won the world title with Brawn, less than 12 months after the team had been put out of business by Honda. But though that season has come to define Jenson Button’s F1 career, in reality it was just one small part for a racer that clocked up more than 300 Grand Prix starts.

On this week’s episode, Jenson discusses his remarkable career journey, including why the most enjoyable part was pre-world title, how frustrations in the early days shaped his future, the positive and negatives of his silky smooth driving style, beating Lewis Hamilton and much more…

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0:30.2	Hello, I'm Jensen Button, Formula 1 World Champion.
0:35.6	And you are listening to Formula 1 Beyond the Grid.
0:44.8	Hello and welcome to F1 Beyond the Grid, presented by the new Bose Noise
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0:51.8	I'm Tom Clarkson and joining me this week is a World Champion.
0:56.0	And not any World Champion, this man lived through one of the sports biggest fairytales.
1:01.0	When, in 2009, he won the World title with Braun, who'd risen from the ashes of Honda's F1 team
1:06.8	less than 12 months before.
1:08.8	I'm talking of course about Jensen Button.
1:11.8	I've known Jensen a long time, I saw all 306 of his Grand Prix,
1:16.0	and I was even his evaluation test at Barcelona in January 2000,
1:20.6	when Williams organised a shootout between him and Bruno Junquiera
1:25.0	for the C-t alongside Ralph Schumacher that season.
1:28.0	Jensen got the nod of course, and the rest, as they say, is history.
1:33.0	Jensen's career had its frustrations, particularly during the early years,
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