Button losing his lead for the F1 title?

August 17, 2009

In case you haven’t noticed, teams are starting to catch up to the once unbeatable mean and green machine.

After a red hot start to the 2009 F1 season that saw Brawn GP on the podium for eight straight races, their last two outings have been a little different with Jenson Button scoring a mere six championship points and Rubens Barrichello dropping three before his DNF in Hungary.

For what it’s worth, Jenson Button still remains on top of the leaderboard as far as the race for the drivers’ title is concerned with Brawn GP still leading the race for the constructors’ title.

But since other teams are starting to close in on them, specifically Red Bull, these guys definitely have something to be worried about. Red Bull’s Mark Webber is now only 18.5 points behind Button while the team in general is only 15.5 points adrift of Brawn GP.

Is Brawn starting to lose its edge or has the competition started to get more competitive? As far as team boss Ross Brawn is concerned, he’s putting the blame on the team’s recent modifications to the BGP001 while also acknowledging that YES, the competition has become a little bit stronger.

”It’s true that the opposition has got a lot stronger, but in the first part of the season we were getting the most out of the tires and unexpectedly we’ve had problems there (since),” team boss Ross Brawn said.

”It’s certainly related to some modification which we’ve introduced during the year and so we are analyzing exactly every step we’ve taken to understand what has caused this problem.”

”I would be more comfortable if we had been able to do some testing. But this is a challenge which the regulations impose this year.”

Can Jenson Button win the 2009 F1 Drivers Championship and punch in the first world championship for Brawn GP? SPORTSBETTING.COM has the odds.

Jenson Button 6-5

Lewis Hamilton 8-1

Felipe Massa 8-1

Fernando Alonso 14-1

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