{"id":1876,"date":"2009-12-04T03:13:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T09:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2022-10-13T17:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:55:37","slug":"jenson-button-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/jenson-button-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenson Button wants Hamilton challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button, the 2009 world champion after sticking with the Brawn team in the wake of Honda&#8217;s withdrawal, will be Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s McLaren teammate next year.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Briton&#8217;s Brawn\/Mercedes talks were rumoured to have failed due to disagreements about his 2010 salary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His decision is disappointing because we worked so well together,&#8221; team boss Ross Brawn told Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But whatever is said, it was not about the money. In the end our offer was even more attractive than McLaren&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it doesn&#8217;t make sense to employ a driver who would not be happy and sees a bigger challenge somewhere else. Further negotiations would have been pointless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jenson obviously wanted to be in the same car against Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s brave and I have to respect it,&#8221; added Brawn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qhZj536_y_Q\" title=\"Jenson Button drives 2009 Brawn BGP001 car around Silverstone!\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn has admitted disappointment with Jenson Button&#8217;s decision to switch to Mercedes, but insists the move has nothing to do with money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,209,118,156],"tags":[2877,2881,2878,221,2879,2872,1690,2874,2873,2875,1650],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-formula-1","category-hot","category-motorsport","tag-auto-motor","tag-formula-1-jenson-button","tag-formula-one-jenson-button","tag-jenson-button","tag-jenson-button-formula","tag-jenson-button-hamilton","tag-jenson-button-mclaren","tag-jenson-button-mercedes","tag-jenson-button-ross-brawn","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-ross-brawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}