Head To Head Jenson Button vs Fernando Alonso

Do you mean that Honda are going to drop out late on, then Ron Dennis will sell the team for a fiver and that the team will then have to chop the rear bodywork apart to fit the Mercedes engine in?
 
Neither do I. It won't be Dennis who sells the team, he will get pushed aside and out by the other equity holders, then they will sell the team to Alonso. The silly season is not yet over.
 
another further incentive Jenson Button should consider his CV could potentially saw he beat 3 world champion teammates and only Prost holds that distinction in F1

that would put him up there with the very best
 
Sadly, beating a former world champion in a season only really counts if you win the title. Prost has four to his name, Button one. It doesn't matter who he beats in that respect.
 
cider_and_toast

That's not a good comparison; in football, the performance of the team is determined not by the quality of the football boots or the ground, but by the quality of the players.

In F1, the quality of the car is a large proportion of the determinant of performance. As such, relative performances really matter. If you, as a world champion, are beaten by your teammate over the course of the season, that is an indicator of your team-mate's quality; if the team haven't managed to build a top line car, then that's not the driver's fault...

You might look at Newcastle beating Chelsea, and say on that day, they were the better team, but over the course of the season you would expect to see Chelsea on top, as on the whole, they are the better squad...
 
cider_and_toast Does that dampen Alonso's reputation seeing he just thrashed Kimi Raikkonen who was suppose to provide him stiff competition?

Does it hurt Hamilton's reputation that he has beaten two reigning world champion team mates - only Reuteman and Prost holds that distinction

although Prost is the only who can say he did it to become world champion

I seem to remember
i) Frentzen's status as a world class driver moved up when he beat Hill in 1999
ii) Mansell was suddenly a world class driver and Piquet was an average driver when they were teammates at Williams because Nelson did not like Nigel beating him and was considered amongst the best drivers in that era

iii) Button being rubbished by a lot of people saying he is not in Hamilton's league and has no right to be in the same team as him and would get a serious whooping - he seemed to have proved them wrong in 2011



F1 is different - it is over a season your comparisons to football is slightly flawed in that it is over 2 games
 
The greatest enemy in F1 is your teammate who has the same machinery as you so if you cant win the drivers title then bragging rights in the interteam battle becomes more important unless you're Helmut Marko or Flavio Briatore
 
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