Jenson Button Is The F1 World Champion!

It has happened! Jenson Button is the Formula 1 World Champion and that makes two British champions in two years as well as a British constructors championship for the Brawn team in their début year. A superb drive along with a fair amount of good fortune  in Brazil after a poor qualifying meant Button managed to make his way up the pack to 5th place and with Vettel only finishing one place ahead in 4th and Barrichello finishing 8th, this was enough to take the title, even with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix still to come on the 1st of November.

It was an exciting race with an eventful start that saw Button start in 14th, Raikkonen damaging his front wing after an altercation with Fisichella on the first few corners and then getting engulfed in a fireball caused by Kovalainen leaving the pits with his fuel hose still attached and then Trulli and Sutil getting into a collision and crashing out early.

The safety car came out and this allowed Hamilton a good chance to take a pit stop early on and subsequently finish third on the podium after a daring over take on Barrichello that left Barrichello’s car with a puncture and meant he dropped back to 8th overall giving Button an easy title from then on.

The celebrations were already getting well under way when the BBC were trying to interview Button, so I can only imagine how good it must have been for the Brawn team that night. I would think a lot of people will be trying to book flights to Abu Dhabi now so that they can see him get officially crowned World Champion.

A quick 90 second recap of the race from the BBC can be seen below