Lewis Hamilton’s Biggest Challenge Is Yet to Come After 2015 Formula 1 Title Win

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Published: October 30, 2015

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After recovering from 14th on the grid to finish fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix, clinching the 2009 Formula One title, Jenson Button would have been forgiven for partying long and hard into the night.

Without a race victory in four months, the British driver had been under the most intense pressure as Rubens Barrichello, his Brawn GP team-mate, and Sebastian Vettel both threatened to steal a title that appeared to have had Button's name on it since his relentless winning streak at the start of that season.

Yet having produced a champion's drive at the time he needed it most—moving out of reach of his main rivals in the standings and becoming the second successive British title winner after Lewis Hamilton's success the previous year—Button was now free to unwind and release all of that simmering, pent-up emotion.



Rather than drinking until the Sao Paulo sun came up, however, the man once dismissed as little more than a "lazy playboy" by Flavio Briatore, per Crash.net, proved his former team principal's assessment was only half-right.

Explaining why he retreated to his hotel room after spending just 45 minutes at his own celebration party, Button told the Guardian's Mikey Stafford:

I wanted a bit of alone time. I think most drivers, when they have the possibility of winning the World Championship, they go crazy.

But we all celebrate it in different ways and for me to just chill on my own was the best thing. I obviously wanted to go out and congratulate the whole team, which I did, and then I got home, relaxed and just took everything in. It was perfect. It was just time by myself, relaxing and thinking about what I had achieved. That was the best place for me. 

Button, of course, had always exuded the aura of someone content with just the one world title, but the restrained, almost unbefitting way he marked the greatest day of his profession...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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