He first drove in Formula One with the Williams team for the 2000 season. The following year he switched to Benetton, which in 2002 became Renault, and then for the 2003 season he moved to BAR. He was educated at Vallis First School, Selwood Middle School and Frome Community College. He failed his first driving test for getting too close to a parked vehicle. At the end of 1998, he won the annual McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award. At the end of 1999, Button had his McLaren test prize at Silverstone, and also tested for the Prost team. A vacant race seat became available at the Williams team, following the departure of Alex Zanardi, and team boss Frank Williams arranged a ‘shoot-out’ test between Button and Formula 3000 racer Bruno Junqueira, with Button securing the drive.
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 Three Championship. They were subsequently renamed Honda for the 2006 season, during which Button won his first Grand Prix in Hungary, after 113 races. Following the withdrawal of Honda from the sport in December 2008, he was left without a drive for the 2009 season, until Ross Brawn led a management buyout of the team in February 2009, and Button suddenly found himself in a highly competitive, Mercedes-engined car. He was named after his father’s friend Erling Jensen, changing the “e” to an “o” to differentiate it from Jensen Motors. After his parents divorced when he was seven, he and his three elder sisters were brought up by their mother in Frome. Further successes followed, including three triumphs in the British Open Kart Championship. Button entered the British Formula Three Championship in 1999, with the Promatecme team. At the end of 1999, Button had his McLaren test prize at Silverstone, and also tested for the Prost team.
Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE (but-?n; born 19 January 1980) is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren. 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 Three Championship. Button was born on 19 January 1980 in Frome, Somerset and brought up in nearby Vobster. in 1989, aged nine, he came first in the British Super Prix.
He first drove in Formula One with the Williams team for the 2000 season. After his parents divorced when he was seven, he and his three elder sisters were brought up by their mother in Frome. in 1989, aged nine, he came first in the British Super Prix. Further successes followed, including three triumphs in the British Open Kart Championship. His prize included a test in a McLaren Formula One car, which he received at the end of the following year.
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