Motor Racing: JENSON READY TO PUSH THE RIGHT BUTTONS; MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX.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. awarded himself an end-of-season bonus yesterday before collecting another from Johnny Herbert John Paul Herbert (born June 25, 1964 in Romford, London, England) is a British former racing driver from England. He competed in Formula One, where he won three races, and more recently in sports cars. .
As befitting be·fit·ting
Appropriate; suitable; proper.
Adj. 1. a playboy in the making, the 20-year-old boy racer Boy racer refers to a particular model of motorcycle and a type of sub-culture based around passenger vehicles.
Originally "Boy racer" was the name of the AJS 7R, the 1951 to 1962 350-cc racing motorcycle produced by Associated Motorcycles. acquired a swanky swank·y
adj. swank·i·er, swank·i·est
swank new address in Surrey and was told there would soon be a world championship trophy decorating the mantlepiece.
The detached home in the stockbroker belt Noun 1. stockbroker belt - a wealthy residential suburb
suburb, suburban area, suburbia - a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
Britain, Great Britain, U.K. near Guildford will be his British base and home to dad, John.
For tax reasons Button's permanent residence will be in Monaco. Where else?
It is yet another indicator of the scale of Button's elevation during a stirring debut year in Formula One. A world title aside, it could not have gone better, and even that is not far away, according to according to
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.
2. In keeping with: according to instructions.
The departing Jaguar driver, who is heading in the opposite direction to Button, out of F1 and Monte Carlo Monte Carlo (môNtā` kärlō`), town (1982 pop. 13,150), principality of Monaco, on the Mediterranean Sea and the French Riviera. , said: "Jenson has been great for British motor sport and for Formula One.
"He has shown how determined he is and the good thing about him is how much he enjoys it. He is not the smoothest guy in the world but he gets the times in.
"He has rattled Ralf's cage this season and as long as things go well for him it looks like we will have a British world champion."
With prospects like those he should have little trouble with his current project. An appeal has gone out to Britney Spears and a thousand like her across the world. The lad has had his phone nicked. Get in touch.
The heir to a tradition almost completely lost to F1, that of the carousing ca·rouse
intr.v. ca·roused, ca·rous·ing, ca·rous·es
1. To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
2. To drink excessively.
Carousal. playboy driver, has coped with pressures beyond compare in his debut season, but is struggling to come to terms with the loss of the one thing he holds most dear - his little black book.
Not since the late James Hunt This article is about the racing driver. For other people named James Hunt, see James Hunt (disambiguation).
James Simon Wallis Hunt (b. 29 August 1947, Belmont, Surrey – d. and retired Gerhard Berger smooched their way around the paddock has the grand prix circuit Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing computer game released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. It was first released in 1987 by Accolade. For PC, it was released in 1988. witnessed such unbridled enthusiasm for the good life.
Button has slipped as effortlessly into the jet-set lifestyle as he has a Formula One car, embracing the one as keenly as the other.
His guard slipped momentarily last week, however, during his stay at an upmarket up·mar·ket
Appealing to or designed for high-income consumers; upscale: "He turned up in well-cut clothes . . . and upmarket felt hats" New Yorker. Club Med resort in Malaysia. After leaving his seat to buy his father a drink, he returned to find his phone was not where he had left it.
"All those numbers, what a bummer bum·mer
1. Slang An adverse reaction to a hallucinogenic drug.
2. Slang One that depresses, frustrates, or disappoints: Getting stranded at the airport was a real bummer. ," he said. "I didn't sleep that night. There were some good numbers in there. I was out of my seat for less than three minutes. Nightmare."
Never mind. Button has a month off to replenish the list before starting work for his new bosses Benetton in December. At his current rate of development he could be married and divorced by then.
Thankfully, Button's professional approach to fun is applied to his work. A season that began with the thumbs-up from Frank Williams on a sunny Barcelona afternoon in January continued along a staggering line of progression that surprised even his hard-headed employers.
The decision to let Button go was not supposed to be the agonising one it became. In principle, he was gone the day he signed, knowing of the verbal agreement Williams had to sign Montoya for 2001, but significantly, the moment the move became public coincided with a dramatic upturn in performance.
Button has out-qualified his much-heralded team-mate Ralf Schumacher in three of the past four races and utterly outperformed him in the last at Suzuka, where the lesser Schuey failed to finish. He will not have the same potent machinery next year but he will be measured against only one other, Giancarlo Fisichella. For that he claims he is ready.
"I knew from day one I would be at Williams for only one season, but I had to take the opportunity. It could have gone the other way, but in the end everything has worked out well and helped me to get a good seat for next year.
"The only person you can judge yourself against is your team-mate. Giancarlo is pretty quick, but I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be great," said Button.
The last time Flavio Briatore took a punt on a callow youth of obvious talent a new chapter in the book of Formula One legends was written.
Button arrives under Flav's wing in differing circumstances to those that greeted Michael Schumacher in 1991, of course, but with the same outrageous self-belief and focus.
He doesn't care too much for whom he drives as long as the car takes him to a world title.
"When I'm in the best car with the best engine, then I can win my first world championship. That's my goal. It would be nice if that were next year, but I doubt it," he said.
It took Schumacher three years to scale the mountain with Benetton. Should the cards fall for Button as they did for Schuey, the world title is one number unlikely to slip through his fingers.