Head To Head Jenson Button vs Fernando Alonso
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The Honda lump?
I think we can all but guarantee it will be better than the Ferrari PU, which FA was undoubtedly assured of before hopping on board.
I think we can all but guarantee it will be better than the Ferrari PU, which FA was undoubtedly assured of before hopping on board.
Olivier
Race Winner
If anything this would be a Prost vs Prost battle. Very interesting indeed
Incubus
Champion Elect
It's incredible to think of the extent to which the Prost-Senna rivalry captured imaginations after 25 years even among people who weren't even around at that time.... How many times do we still hear mentions of a "Prost-Senna" type of rivalry between team-mates even today?
Okay own up, who's the comedian who started this bloody thread.?
That would be me! You got a problem with that? 
I predict that Alonso will have 25% more points than Button next year and will win the Quali battle, too. I'll wait until spring testing to make any Honda-McLaren predictions
rufus_mcdufus
Champion Elect
It's like West Side Story with racing cars.
Il_leone
World Champion
Alonso should come out on top but Button will give him much better competition than Raikkonen
- they know each other from their Renault days and have mutual respect for each other as racers ... something Alonso did not have against Raikkonen or certainly was prepared to let him know
- Button's experience of Honda and Japanese culture will help him and the team enormously. In any teammate battle there will always be a flashpoint to up their rivarly We did not see it between Alonso and Raikkonen apart from Spain when they were on different strategies
- Prost vs Senna style will always be mentioned because that is the yardstick for interteam battles to the point where they were driving each other off the road eclipsing Mansell vs Piquet which eclipsed Pironi vs Villeneuve
- Both have very similar approach to racing although Alonso seems to be able to eek out just a little bit more and is relentlessly formidable.
- If the car is bad then Alonso might just blow away Button but if Jenson finds a set up where he is comfortable he will be thereabouts
Another note people like to write off Jenson Button time and time again and he comes back and proves people wrong again and again
- they know each other from their Renault days and have mutual respect for each other as racers ... something Alonso did not have against Raikkonen or certainly was prepared to let him know
- Button's experience of Honda and Japanese culture will help him and the team enormously. In any teammate battle there will always be a flashpoint to up their rivarly We did not see it between Alonso and Raikkonen apart from Spain when they were on different strategies
- Prost vs Senna style will always be mentioned because that is the yardstick for interteam battles to the point where they were driving each other off the road eclipsing Mansell vs Piquet which eclipsed Pironi vs Villeneuve
- Both have very similar approach to racing although Alonso seems to be able to eek out just a little bit more and is relentlessly formidable.
- If the car is bad then Alonso might just blow away Button but if Jenson finds a set up where he is comfortable he will be thereabouts
Another note people like to write off Jenson Button time and time again and he comes back and proves people wrong again and again
The united colours of Benetton 
Why are Bruce Springsteen and Robin Gibb sitting on that Benetton?
olegg
Race Winner
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Do the eyebrows Ron, the eyebrows, for **** sake
I reckon Alonso's eyebrow is where he get's his six tenths from..
The Artist.....
Champion Elect
I predict that Button will come out on top, and Alonso will retire at the end of the season.
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