It's time for this week's Friday favourite! antdavidson picks out 2009 F1 world champion JensonButton as his favourite team-mate. Find out why ⬇️
The 2005 Malaysian Grand Prix was not a memorable one for BAR-Honda. Both cars were out by lap three, and predictably it was an opportunity for Autosport’s resident cartoonist Jim Bamber to poke fun. Having waited years for the opportunity to race a BAR in anger, long-time tester Anthony Davidson recalls his last-minute call up to replace an unwell Takuma Sato as an “unbelievably disappointing” weekend.
“We pretty much grew up together in karting, similar ages, in all similar categories, raced up and down the country wheel-to-wheel, always fierce competitors and basically followed each other all the way through in our career,” says Davidson, the elder of the pair by nine months. “I actually went further in the race than he did, so I’ll take that – a 100% win ratio against him!” he jokes. “As I passed his car at the side of the track in a plume of smoke, I was really sliding everywhere. I thought: ‘Now it all makes sense why I’m sliding around, because obviously there’s oil on the track. This an absolute nightmare, I definitely seem to be sliding around more than anybody else, but I’ve passed his car and it should be alright now’.
"He [Button] was always a driver that focused more on exits, he would carry quite a lot of minimum corner speed but also somehow managed to get a very good exit as well. He always kept it clean, always used all of the track, so I learned a lot from him in F1" “It’s the team that makes the decision on who drives their car and it’s never personal, as it wasn’t withat Toyota with me,” he says. “It wasn’t him, it was the team that took that decision, so there are never hard feelings.
“It proved what I’ve felt all along about that young generation coming up through karting, as we were back then with the likes of Dan Wheldon, Justin Wilson, Jenson, myself. We all knew we were good and we all knew one of us at least would go on to have huge success.”Photo by: Andre Vor / Sutton Images
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