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Button thought career was over twice before 2009 title
For Jenson Button the emotions when winning the Championship in 2009 were so strong because twice before he thought his career was over. The Briton's only World Championship arrived in 2009 with Brawn, but Button has already revealed that his lack of knowledge when it came to developing a Formula 1 car almost cost him his career in 2002. And again in 2008 when Honda pulled the plug on their Formula 1 operations it was left to Brawn to pick up the pieces, and Button's Formula 1 career. 'I kind of knew [I was World Champion] before anyone said anything on the radio,' he said when speaking on the Collecting Cars podcast. 'That last lap, some people say they just want to get it done when they...
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