Sir Jackie Stewart affirms that the F1 world champion made a mistake when he left Brawn GP for McLaren.
One of the former Formula 1 glories, Sir Jackie Stewart, said that Jenson Button did a terrible mistake when he decided to leave Brown GP and join McLaren because he will find difficult to adapt to a new team that is accustomed to work with Hamilton.
“It will be difficult for him to take on Lewis Hamilton. It’s like walking into the lion’s den, because Lewis has had three years with McLaren now. He has it his way. He’s already disposed of one driver that came in there in Alonso. Fernando couldn’t cut it against Lewis Hamilton, and I think that Lewis will want to retain his position of prominence in that team. Whereas at Brawn, I think [Button] would have had an advantage over his [potential] team-mate Nico Rosberg, having knowledge of the team,” thinks Jackie
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The Formula 1 team will have, in 2010, a very delicate situation: on the starting line they will line up tow world champions, with big prides. Remember Senna and Prost?
Although Ross Brawn wanted Button to stay and race for his team, recently acquired by Mercedes, it seems that the new owner haven’t reached an agreement with the British driver, over the wage and bonuses for the 2010 season.
So, Jenson Button accepted, without having a second thought, the McLaren Team offer, where he will be teammate whit his las year fierce rival, Lewis Hamilton, last year’s champion. This is not a new thing for McLaren (the most notorious being the Senna-Prost team), but we will see if this is not going to affect the team spirit.
For the moment, rumor has it that Button’s ex-team will count on the services of Nico Rosberg and Nick Heidfeld, so the Mercedes team will be 100% German - unlike McLaren, where
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