Jenson Button

Article summary

Jenson Alexander Lyons Button (born 19 January 1980) is a British former racing driver who competed in Formula One from to . Button won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in with Brawn, and won 15 Grands Prix across 18 seasons. Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British Formula 3 Championship. He first drove in F1 with Williams for the 2000 season. The following year, he switched to Benetton, which, at the start of the 2002 season, became the Renault team, and then moved to BAR for the 2003 season. He finished third in the 2004 World Drivers' Championship before falling to ninth in the 2005 championship. BAR was subsequently renamed and became the Honda team for the 2006 season, during which Button won his first Grand Prix at the after 113 races. Following the withdrawal of Honda from the sport in December 2008, Button was left without a team for the 2009 season. In February 2009, Ross Brawn led a management buyout of Honda, creating Brawn GP and recruiting Button as a driver. Button went on to win a record-equalling six of the first seven races of the 2009 season, securing the Drivers' Championship at the , having led on points all season; his success also helped Brawn GP to secure that year's Constructors' Championship.…

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1. date of birth: 1980-01-19 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of birth: 1980-01-19 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. members: 26 members — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377697207