To ask the strongest driver in F1 history, there may be many people arguing with Schumacher and Hamilton. But to say that F1's most handsome drivers overall champion, "British gentleman" Jenson Barton is definitely on the list.
The last 11 years of the F1 Drivers' Championship have been won by both teams. Before them, it was Barton who reached the top in 2009, and his Brown team was also acquired by Meben that year. So how exactly did Barton win the championship?
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Born in 1980, Jenson Barton began his racing career at the age of 9. Since winning the British Super Karting Grand Prix for the first time in 1989, Barton's racing career has been smooth sailing, winning titles and showing great strength from an early age.
Even the strongest people need time to settle down, and it is not easy to win the championship. In 2000, Barton officially joined Williams, debuting in F1 and becoming a teammate with Michael Schumacher's younger brother Ralph. He showed exceptional talent and eventually finished 8th among all the drivers. Many convoys have taken a fancy to this "good seedling" and have thrown olive branches.
In the following years, Barton successively traveled to and from Renault, B.A.R and other teams. 2004 was a very important year for him, not only because of the much-publicized transfer events, but also because in this season, Barton performed extremely well, earning the first pole position of his career and ranking third in the overall ranking of the year.
In the 2006 season, Barton continued to work hard, winning the first station title of his career in the heavy rain in Hungary with his proud rain station technology. I thought this was his brilliant starting point, but I didn't expect that the team's "Earth Car" could not match his skills, and Barton once had the idea of leaving the team. But in 2008, the arrival of fellow Brown completely changed his destiny.
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In 2008, Rose Brown, the renowned technical director of F1, acquired the team and was determined to prepare for the new season and assemble the innovative racing car BGP001. In the 2009 season, the "two buses" combination of Barton and Barrichello made a grand debut in the BGP001 car, and won the first and second places in the first stop.
At the beginning of this season, Barton achieved an amazing record of 7 stops and 6 wins as a dark horse, laying the advantage in one fell swoop. Although his form fluctuated in the second half of the season, he still sat firmly in the first place in the overall rankings, and finally won the title of the first drivers' championship.
After 9 years of F1 career and more than 100 games, Barton finally realized his dream and put a perfect end to his standing year! Barton is the tenth overall champion from the United Kingdom in F1 history, and in June 2010 she officially received the MBE Medal at Buckingham Palace and was awarded the title of Zo.
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Barton's career was extremely stable, and stability was his most prominent feature. At the same time, Patton's grasp of the complex environment also makes his melee ability second to none among all the drivers of the same period. But Barton also has weaknesses that can't be ignored: of all the F1 titles, Barton's lap-up ability is weaker, reducing his speed to preserve the tire, making him different from other drivers.
Only when the driver deals well with his own car can he have the opportunity to play his best. Undoubtedly, Patton is a strong opponent and driver, with a strong ability to control the car, and in his career he can play at least 98% of the ability of the car, the car is not only his tool, more like his partner!
In 2016, 36-year-old McLaren driver Barton announced his retirement. He is still active in the public eye, but no longer as a racing driver, but as a speaker. The first WEC project in Barton's hometown will provide an opportunity he never tried, and Barton can do what he can't do on F1: stand on the podium in front of the public he adores!