He was really quick. Button reminisced on the fun times he spent with Fernando around the paddock, which he needed nearing the twilight of his Formula 1 career.
Moreover, Button shared that he had the utmost respect and admiration for Alonso during their years together. Which, in a way, I was at a point in my career that I was up for games…we understood each other and we definitely respected each other, and we knew that when we did things the other guy could take it. When their son was born, on 19 January, , in Frome, Somerset, southwest England, John and Simone Button named him after Erling Jensen, a Danish friend who competed in rallycross, a branch of motorsport in which John Button had raced with distinction.
While the spelling of his name was deliberately changed to differentiate it from the Jensen sportscar, Jenson Button was from infancy fascinated by motorsport. A hyperactive, strong-willed child with a short attention span, he only sat still when watching racing on TV.
A miniature scramble bike, a gift for his seventh birthday, briefly satisfied his appetite for action until it was replaced in his affections by a 60cc go-kart, a Christmas present the eight-year-old drove to victory in his very first race.
The little blond, freckle-faced winner went to sleep hugging his tiny trophy, having informed his indulgent Dad that he wanted to be Formula 1 World Champion. By this time his parents had separated and Jenson moved in with his father, who would support him throughout his career, while remaining close to his mother and his three older sisters, Natasha, Samantha and Tanya. Easy-going and always smiling, the affable youngster was popular with his friends and schoolmates, few of whom were aware of how the modest and unassuming Jenson Button was becoming a big name in the karting world.
John Button coached his son and helped pay for his racing with the proceeds from a kart engine preparation business.
Though money was always short for the Buttons on one occasion John had to borrow funds to buy fuel to drive home from a race in Scotland their kart adventures became increasingly serious. As an year-old Jenson won all 34 races in the British Cadet category, following which a succession of British kart titles led to a contract with a professional Italian-based team.
His weekend hobby had become a career he left school in his mid-teens and at 17 Jenson became the youngest driver to win the European Formula Super A championship. While talent watchers were now comparing him to the late world champion Ayrton Senna, Jenson failed his first attempt to get a licence to drive a road car because he frightened his examiner by speeding through a narrow gap in traffic.
Yet this same swift, smooth and assured technique won him the British Formula Ford championship and a year later he was immediately quick and confident in testing one of multiple world champion Alain Prost's F1 cars.
Jenson at first thought it was a joke when his Christmas eve celebrations with friends in a Frome pub were interrupted by a phone call from Frank Williams. The reality, an invitation to test a Williams F1 car, was in fact a shoot-out with another driver to fill a vacancy. Five days after his 20th birthday, moments before the launch of the edition of the Williams-BMW F1 team, Frank Williams told him he had the job, whereupon Jenson and John Button burst into tears. His debut F1 season went well he became the sport's youngest ever point scorer but Williams having previously committed to another driver loaned Jenson to Benetton-Renault for the next two seasons.
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