The one Jenson Button superpower that an ex-teammate dreams of having

Jenson Button’s ability to excel in difficult weather conditions is a skill that Fernando Alonso wishes he could take.
Jenson Button (GBR) Sky Sports F1 Presenter / Williams Racing Senior
Jenson Button (GBR) Sky Sports F1 Presenter / Williams Racing Senior

Button and Alonso were McLaren teammates from 2015-2017, after each driver had won t🍨heir F1 world championships.

Alonso, who has driven alo⭕ngside the esteemed Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen, was asked to select one key skill that he wished he could inꦜherit from an ex-teammate.

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“I would take from Buttoඣn, from Jenson, the way of reading these weather conditions,” Alonso said. 

“And how the track evolves in damp conditions.”

2009 F1 champion Button fam💛ously won the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix in dreadful weather𒁏 conditions.

Two years Button was asked on Nico Rosberg’s YouTube channel who his faste💫st-ever ex-꧙teammate was, over one lap.

"I think Lewis is,” Button replied.

He was asked who the most “complete” drive🎀r was, and replied: "I can only compare them when I had them as teammates. I can't compare them now. 

 - Race, Fernando Alonso (ESP) McLaren Honda MP4-31 and Jenson Button (GBR) McLaren Honda
- Race, Fernando Alonso (ESP) McLaren Honda MP4-31 and Jenson Button (GBR) McLaren Honda

“But the most complete driver was Fernando. He would find every w🌃ay to be quicker than you.

"Lewis, for me, was a very straightforward teammate. He was really quick. In testing he could be not really on the pace, three- or four-tenths off even, and I don't think 🌳he was doing it on purpose. 

“Then he'd get to q🌺ualifying and he'd be on it. He would always find the lap time in qualifying.

"Fernando would play games a lot more. I was a🤪t a point in my career that I was up for games. We weren't fighting against anyone else, we were so slow that we were fighting against each other!”

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