Button is the new world champion, a title that if nothing else confirms him as the luckiest man alive. I know I am not alone in thinking that Button does not deserve to be world champion and the reasons for this are numerous. I do admit that as a South African I am no great fan of England but I still think there is enough evidence to prove that Jenson Button is just another Villeneuve, the combination of luck and a spectacular car got him where is today.

At the beginning of the year when the Brawn was untouchable Button was actually driving very well, dare I say like a champion. In my opinion however the acid test for a champion is how he performs when the pressure is on, not when he is merely a speck on the horizon for the competition. And in this regard Button most certainly did not drive like a champion when the Brawn car didn’t quite perform.

How many times for instance did the whole world hear Button shouting frantically in a panic to his race engineer over the radio, his complaints about the car were incessant whilst Barrichello in the same car knuckled down and scored some points. Button preferred instead to throw his toys out the cot and whine. That is not how a champion drives, when there is a problem a true champion fights on and drives through it. Furthermore on this issue, when the Brawn wasn’t quite on it Barrichello had a knack for still qualifying high or at least making it into Q3, something that cannot be said for Button.

Let us also not forget about how lucky he was, even when Button was nowhere in a struggling car, his main contenders seemed absolutely determined to throw away their edge. Red Bull were apparently obsessed with fueling their best chance, and by that I mean Vettel, far too heavily and thus compromising his grid position. That is bad enough but when you consider that Red Bull often admitted that their car was great in clear air but suffered disproportionately compared to other cars in turbulence one has to ask the question if Christian Horner was drunk the whole time. His decision making was terrible, why if you know your car is bad at following would you then deliberately place it behind other cars at the start? And no, KERS is not a good enough answer.

Red Bull’s insistence on letting their drivers compete was also a mistake, backing one car just makes sense which Brawn showed on more that one occasion during the season. There were several curios strategy decisions for poor old Barrichello which surprise surprise helped Button, now I don’t actually have an issue with team orders, that’s F1 but when it comes combined with so many other lucky advantages for Button I can’t accept Button as the best driver in the world.

I have heard many opinions as to who the best F1 driver is, the most common is that Alonso is the best but he’s in a bad car. Hamilton is also often thrown into this debate, but I personally think Vettel is the quickest. Sure he doesn’t always make the most prudent decisions as evidenced by his huge number of DNF’s, but he is fast. My point is that whilst everyone seems to have a different opinion on the best driver, I have never in the almost a decade of his career met anyone who thought Jenson Button was the best driver in the world. He is not a world champion in my eyes, but that’s just me.