Head To Head Jenson Button vs Lewis Hamilton

[Hamberg]

It's still the 22nd where I am (19:21 EST) So happy birthday from East Coast USA

 

[Mephistopheles]

Thanks love...

 

[Quintessentially]

Button has benefitted a lot from total support from McLaren, possibly more than he would get at any other team and sometimes more than his performances have merited. I've said it beofre that any other team would’ve thrown their full weight behind Lewis after Canada this year and they probably would’ve been sitting better in both championship tables than McLaren. Personally I feel Jenson is going to come under more scrutiny than Lewis next year as McLaren are expected to be competitive unlike Mercedes.

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

Isn't life just wonderful when everyone sees things from a different point of view... without this simple fact I would have thrown myself off of something very high a very long time ago.....

And you would probably have survived, as you would have had a soft landing on the pile of other people who had just done the same thing...

...only to be crushed to death by the hordes of other people doing the same thing, and landing on you.

 

[Lewywo4]

I know Davidson doesn't like Hamilton but still, his conclusion doesn't match his statements.

Could there be a little bit of jelousy on the part of.......Davidson?

 

[The Pits]

Just another opinion, to be ignored or used whenever it fits to do so.

 

[Il_leone]

Davidson is not exactly best of mates with Button after all they were in the same team and his contribution to the team was not as well recognised

 

[Mephistopheles]

Would Lewis have left McLaren if Button wasn't there?

It is something that has just occurred to me, and to be honest I don't think he would have, I'm not saying Button forced him out but his arrival did change the dynamics of the team....

 

[Brogan]

I'm not saying Button forced him out

I would and it's a conclusion I reached a long time ago.

 

[Bill Boddy]

How did you come to that conclusion?

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Same way as me I guess... by observation.

 

[Lewywo4]

Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment, and Didier Coton had more to do with Lewis leaving Mclaren, rather than a slower teammate.

 

[racecub]

I think Lewis was just fed up with McLaren dicking about. Button was just part of the script. Button is no threat to Lewis, but the incompetence at McLaren is.......so he moved. Simples.

 

[teabagyokel]

Over three years, in the same incompetent team, Hamilton has ourscored Button by a massive 5 points.

 

[racecub]

Definitely time to move on!!

 

[Mephistopheles]

teabagyokel some people will never accept that when you take a big enough sample (In this case three years.) the results cannot be explained away by luck, bad luck, conspiracy or any other reason, they just have to be accepted for what they are and therefore the truth, they could be team mates for a hundred years and nothing would change in this regard....

 

[racecub]

You must be right. Jenson Button must be just as good a driver as Lewis Hamilton

 

[Bill Boddy]

Same way as me I guess... by observation.

But what observation?

 

[Mephistopheles]

You must be right. Jenson Button must be just as good a driver as Lewis Hamilton

In my opinion he is and on occasions better, but that's just my opinion of course, and nothing that has happened in the last three years has done nothing change my opinion, if it had I would say so...

 

[ExtremeNinja]

But what observation?

Observation of the time that they spent together as team-mates at McLaren.