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Jenson Button is F1 World Champion
If you’re Formula One fan, you should know this. Well meet the newest World Champion, Jenson Button celebrating with his fans in this below video.
At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Button was hampered by poor weather in qualifying and could only achieve fourteenth position.
His championship campaign was boosted by Sebastian Vettel qualifying sixteenth, but team-mate and closest rival Rubens Barrichello qualified on pole.
In the race, Button made up five positions on the opening lap, aided by a first-lap incident, and was up to seventh by lap seven. He ran as high as second place by the halfway mark, but ultimately finished fifth, taking enough points to secure the 2009 World Championship with one round to spare.
With 169 starts, Button made the second-highest number of race starts before becoming World Champion. Only Nigel Mansell (with 176 starts, at the 1992 Hungarian Grand Prix) had competed in more races than Button before reaching World Championship glory.
World Champion Jenson Button and Vice President Mercedes-Benz Motorsport Norbert Haug speak about the win of the championship and the successful partnership.
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