Editing Jenson Button (section)

====Brawn GP (2009)====
Brawn purchased the Honda team for a nominal fee and renamed it as [[Brawn GP]] in early March 2009. Button signed a contract to drive for the team in {{f1|2009}}, and took a pay cut as part of the agreement. Although he was installed by bookmakers as a 100–1 outsider for the championship, Button's [[Brawn BGP 001]] car was quick and reliable in pre-season testing in Europe due to an efficient aerodynamic package, a powerful [[Mercedes-Benz in Formula One|Mercedes-Benz]] V8 engine and grippy [[slick tyres]]. The car's seat was lowered to make him comfortable.{{sfn|Button|2010|pp=17–26}}

[[File:Jenson Button 2009 Turkey 2.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Brawn BGP 001]] car that Button drove to win the {{F1|2009}} championship]]

Button won six of the first seven races with four pole positions,<ref name=BRDCWinter09/> having benefited from a double diffuser design making him and the Toyota and Williams teams faster than others.{{efn|Button matched the achievement set by former world champions [[Alberto Ascari]], [[Juan Manuel Fangio]], [[Jim Clark]] and Schumacher.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jenson Button hails 'monster of a car' after winning sixth race this season|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jun/08/jenson-button-turkish-grand-prix-victory-formula-one|work=The Guardian|date=8 June 2009|access-date=21 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612021256/http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jun/08/jenson-button-turkish-grand-prix-victory-formula-one|archive-date=12 June 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}{{sfn|Button|2010|p=30}}{{sfn|Jones|2010|pp=118–119}}  Once the major teams had introduced their own reconfigured diffusers Button's dominance ended, averaging sixth position in the following ten races and scoring 35 points after accumulating 61 in the first seven.<ref name=BRDCWinter09>{{cite journal|last=Constanduros|first=Bob|title=Push the Button|url=http://www.brdc.co.uk/assets/Volume_30_No_476952.pdf|journal=BRDC Bulletin|volume=30|issue=4|pages=22–23|date=Winter 2009|access-date=7 May 2020|archive-date=15 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115201056/http://www.brdc.co.uk/assets/Volume_30_No_476952.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> This was due to the team spending 10 per cent of its allocated £7&nbsp;million budget on developing the car and Button's smooth driving style preventing him from generating heat into its tyres in cold weather.{{Sfn|Button|2017|pp=229–231}} At the {{F1 GP|2009|Brazilian}}, Button was hampered in qualifying by a poor choice of tyres in the wet weather and could achieve 14th position. His championship campaign was boosted by Vettel qualifying 16th, but team-mate and closest rival Barrichello qualified on pole. In the race, Button finished fifth, taking enough points to secure the championship with one round remaining.{{efn|With 169 starts, Button made the second-highest number of race starts before becoming World Champion. Only [[Nigel Mansell]] (with 176 starts) had competed in more races than Button before winning the World Championship.<ref>{{cite magazine | date = 22 October 2009 | title = Contents: 169 |magazine= Autosport | page = 3 | volume = 198 | issue = 4 }}</ref>}}{{sfn|Jones|2010|pp=118–119}} At the final race of the season, the {{F1GP|2009|Abu Dhabi}}, Button qualified behind Barrichello again, but finished on the podium in third position.{{sfn|Button|2010|pp=290–299}}
[[File:Jenson Button 2009 Italy 2.jpg|thumb|Button at the [[2009 Italian Grand Prix]]]]
In the off-season, Brawn and team principal [[Nick Fry]] informed Button they wanted him to sign an extension to his contract and be paired with [[Nico Rosberg]]. Button asked for a commitment to car development for 2010 and a close to a repeat performance of the 2009 season. Brawn and Fry said [[Mercedes-Benz in Formula One|Mercedes]] would buy-out Brawn GP without locating potential sponsors, which Button found unappealing and told his manager Richard Goodard he desired a new challenge.{{Sfn|Button|2017|pp=249–251}}