News index

December 31, 2009: Jenson Button has said being appointed Member of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen is the "crowning glory" of his world championship winning year

December 22, 2009: Brawn GP and German consumer goods company Henkel have settled a dispute over a sponsorship deal

December 22, 2009: In the second part of ESPNF1's end-of-year awards, we look at the three best teams and the three most impressive crashes

December 21, 2009: In the first part of ESPNF1's end-of-year awards, we look at the three best drivers and the three biggest mistakes of the year

December 13, 2009: Jenson Button has finished runner-up in the coveted BBC Sports Personality of the Year award at a star studded ceremony in Sheffield

December 13, 2009: Jenson Button is the bookies favourite to take the coveted BBC Sports Personality of the Year award tonight

December 9, 2009: You'd be forgiven for thinking it's now obligatory for a British sportsman to release an autobiography by the age of 30. Thankfully Jenson Button has decided not to mark his world championship by sharing stories of sitting on the school bus, instead releasing one about his championship winning year, imaginatively titled, My Championship Year.

December 8, 2009: You may not recognise the name but you'll almost certainly recognise the voice. Andy "Shov" Shovlin is the man who talked Jenson Button to the 2009 world championship

December 2, 2009: It's been a busy year for Jenson Button, at the beginning of the year he was facing unemployment as Honda withdrew from F1. By October he was Formula One World Champion and in November he released his new book "My Championship Year".

December 1, 2009: A review of the 2009 Season

November 19, 2009: Jenson Button's former boss Nick Fry claimed he was "mystified" by Button's decision to leave Brawn GP

November 18, 2009: Jenson Button has signed a multi-year deal to race with McLaren, which will see him paired against fellow world champion Lewis Hamilton in an all-British line-up

November 16, 2009: Ron Dennis believes Mercedes' decision to team-up with Brawn and gradually decrease its holding in McLaren will benefit all concerned

November 16, 2009: Mercedes have bought a majority shareholding in Brawn GP and are set to rename the team Mercedes GP ahead of next season

November 10, 2009: Ross Brawn believes major manufacturers will return to Formula One in the future despite the recent exodus

November 4, 2009: Brawn GP topped off their fairytale season by scooping three awards at the Professional Motorsport World Expo Awards in Cologne

November 2, 2009: Jenson Button finally clinched the 2009 world championship with a fifth place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix, while Mark Webber took a comfortable victory for Red Bull

November 1, 2009: Sebastian Vettel claimed his fourth victory of the season under the artificial lighting of the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

October 26, 2009: Jenson Button has had to fight for his Formula One world title... and not just this season, either.