Team Leader Button?

[Mia 01]

The topic was about Jenson as a team leader 2013. In my opinion he will do just fine, the car will be to his liking and he will be the teams No 1 driver for sure.

[F1boat]

As usual, a topic about Jenson degenerates into comparison with Lewis.

[CaptainRaiden]

As usual, a topic about Jenson degenerates into comparison with Lewis.

As usual the self appointed forum nannies have nothing interesting to add, but to complain about the direction of a thread which incidentally is still talking about Button.

[driveace]

Well Button should be lead driver,but will he be the fastest,and more point scoring than Perez this next year,and will he score more points in the fastest car on the track this year ,than Lewis will in what many describe as a Donkey ( the Merc)

[Knock-on]

He has been faultless this year.

Sorry, I don't know how you can dare claim that. He certainly went a little wide on a corner in Brazil this year and ended up going slightly off track.

The rest of your post is 100% spot on

As for Jenson, he has struggled with the car this year but I think we will see a McLaren much more to his liking next year and a Mercedes that will challenge for wins out of the box for Lewis.

[dj_bytedisaster]

As usual, a topic about Jenson degenerates into comparison with Lewis.

Well, if you talk about a driver and his performances, the comparison to his team mate is inevitable, wouldn't you think? After all the team mate's performance in an identical car is the best and most accurate measure.
A lot will depend on whether or not Pirelli bring comedy tires again. Button said that for most part of the season he had to change the car's setup radically, just to make the tires work. That way more often than not he ended up with an understeering car, which he admits to not coping well with.

[F1boat]

The thread is for next year, IMO the comparison to Lewis has been done to death and is not very relevant for the topic...

[Bagwan]

The thread is for next year, IMO the comparison to Lewis has been done to death and is not very relevant for the topic...

The thread topic is a slag on Button , for having voiced that he will be happy to be the leader next year .

The old "Mac treats them equally" rhetoric flag flew , along with the old "Jenson can't cope without a perfect car " was the anthem sung , so the comparison was the main point , point in fact .

As Jenson struggled to cope with a car designed for Lewis , Lewis sailed in a car designed for himself .
That seems to be what Jenson is saying here .

Next year will show if he was right .

[keysersoze]

The old "Mac treats them equally" rhetoric flag flew.

Why diminish it by calling it rhetoric? It's the company policy that has been put into practice, verified time and again.

[CaptainRaiden]

Seriously I'm getting tired of hearing Button fans talking about him being the leader next year now that Lewis left ship. I mean who stopped him from being the leader this year?

It's not Lewis or Mclaren's fault that Button pretty much sucked in 2012.

Besides who's to say Checo can't beat him next year? The mysterious "grip" and "heat" problems that dog Button from time to time don't seem to be bothering Perez that much.