Jenson Button

Jenson Button was born on 19 January 1980. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship when he drove for the Brawn GP.

Jenson Button in a file photo (image credits: twitter)
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Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE is a British racing driver born on 19 January 1980 in Frome, Somerset and brought up in nearby Vobster, Mells to former rallycross driver John Button and Simone Lyons. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship when he drove for the Brawn GP. His Father John Button was well known in the United Kingdom during most of the 1970s for racing his Volkswagen Type 1, which was nicknamed the Colorado Beetle. Button was educated at Vallis First School, Selwood Middle School and Frome Community College.

Jenso Button enjoyed racing from an early age, racing a BMX bike with friends after school, and began watching Formula One motor racing with his father around the age of five or six. He idolized four-time world champion Alain Prost for his calm personality and intellectual approach to driving. After his parents divorced when he was seven, he and his three elder sisters were brought up by their mother in Frome. His karting career limited his studying and he left school with one GCSE. Button failed his first driving test for driving between two cars on a narrow road.

Jenson Button before F1

Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British Formula 3 Championship. He was the youngest runner-up of the Formula A World Championship at age 15. Button was signed to drive Tecno-Rotax karts for Team GKS, coming fifth in the 1996 European Formula A Championship, third in the Formula A World Cup, and third in the American Championship. In 1997, he was moved to the top-level of karting Formula Super A by his team. 

Button won the Ayrton Senna Memorial Cup for finishing second in the 1997 Japanese World Cup, and became the youngest driver and first Briton to claim the European Super A Championship. He also was runner-up in the Winter Cup before the European Super A Championship. Aged 18, Button moved into single seater car racing. Button moved to Formula Ford for the 1998 season. He took the British Formula Ford Championship in a Haywood Racing Mygale SJ98 car with nine victories and won the season-ending Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch. Button also finished runner-up in the European Formula Ford Championship with one victory from four races.

F1 Debut and Team

He first drove in F1 with Williams for the 2000 season. sixth-place finish at the season’s second race in Brazil made him the youngest driver in history to score a point. In his first six races, he qualified higher than his teammate Ralf Schumacher twice, and was consistently close in pace. However, Williams had intended to use Button only until they could exercise their option to buy the highly rated Juan Pablo Montoya out of his contract at Chip Ganassi Racing. A dip in Button’s form, combined with Montoya’s victory in the 2000 Indianapolis 500, led to Montoya being announced as his replacement midway through the season. Williams chose not to sell Button’s contract, keeping the right to recall him in 2003. He went to Benetton Formula on a two-year loan.

Formula 1 Career Stats

Races306
Wins15
Poles8
Podiums50
Points1235

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Jenson Button Car Number 

For the 2014 season, the FIA created a new sporting regulation allowing a driver to select a unique car number for use throughout their F1 career. Button chose the number 22, which was the one he was assigned in his 2009 championship season 

Jenson Button Net Worth 

According to various online resources Jenson Button estimated net worth is around $170 Million. Almost all of that money has been earned on race car tracks. Button has been a Formula One race car driver for almost 22 years. The British driver has won 135 million dollars as a Formula One race car driver. He has Brand endorsement deals worth 50 million dollars, to brag about. He is one of those gentlemen who has a massive interest in the realty sector of England And the United States.

Who is Jenson Button’s Wife

The 2009 world champion, Button is newly married, having tied the knot with Brittny Ward in March 2022. The couple had to delay the wedding thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the birth of their two children. Button and Ward got married in Palm Beach, Florida, with their home base currently being in Los Angeles. Ward is a model whose previous roles include being a ring-girl for UFC fights as well as appearing in Playboy. As of 2022, Button is 42 years old, 14 years older than Ward. 

Brand Endorsements

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Hilton

Hugo Boss

Santander Bank

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