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Jenson Button

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Also known as Jenson Alexander Lyons Button

British racing driver

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Jenson Alexander Button is a British racing automobile driver and autobiographer born on January 19, 1980, in Frome. He has competed for teams including McLaren, Benetton Formula, Williams Racing, and Renault F1 Team. Button has won the British Formula Ford Championship and Super GT, and has participated in events such as the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Macau Grand Prix. He is also involved in triathlon.

Button has received the Member of the Order of the British Empire and the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year. He resides in Monaco and speaks English. As an author, he has published works including *Jenson Button : Life to the Limit* and *How to Be an F1 Driver*.

Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
11

Top works

  • Alain Prost
  • Jenson Button : Life to the Limit
  • Jenson Button
  • Comment devenir pilote de F1
  • How to Be an F1 Driver

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Film & TV

Acting · Frome, Somerset, England, UK

Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE is a British racing driver. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship when he drove for the Brawn GP team. After his F1 career, he became champion of the 2018 season of the Super GT Series alongside Naoki Yamamoto, with whom he shared a Honda racing car at Team Kunimitsu.

Known for

  • American Thunder: NASCAR to Le Mans — Self2025
  • Lap of Legends — Self2024
  • Williams & Mansell: Red 5 — Self2023
  • Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story — Self2023
  • Radford Returns — Self2022
  • Duel: Hamilton vs Verstappen — Self2022
  • Lewis Hamilton: The Winning Formula — self2021
  • Stirling Moss: The Uncrowned King of F1 — Self2020
  • How the 2012 Season Was Won — Self (archive footage)2020
  • Origins of the Silver War — Self (archival footage)2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Origin
Perth

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
34
Total plays
388

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome

    · 2013 · cited 8,951x

  2. Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience

    · 2013 · cited 6,302x

  3. A Next Generation Connectivity Map: L1000 Platform and the First 1,000,000 Profiles

    · 2017 · cited 3,235x

  4. Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma

    · 2015 · cited 2,713x

  5. The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    · 2015 · cited 2,598x

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Encyclopedic overview

Jenson Alexander Lyons Button (born 19 January 1980) is a British former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2000 to 2017. Button won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2009 with Brawn, and won 15 Grands Prix across 18 seasons.

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 3 Championship. He first drove in F1 with Williams for the 2000 season. The following year, he switched to Benetton, which, at the start of the 2002 season, became the Renault team, and then moved to BAR for the 2003 season. He finished third in the 2004 World Drivers' Championship before falling to ninth in the 2005 championship. BAR was subsequently renamed and became the Honda team for the 2006 season, during which Button won his first Grand Prix at the Hungarian Grand Prix after 113 races.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jenson Button” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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