It had been a long, hard ride from winning masses of kart races when he was a kid to winning the 2009 Formula One World Championship. But, like so many other kart stars of the last 30 years or so, Jenson Button did it, with a lot of team changes and disappointments in between. Born in 1980, Jenson—named after his late father John’s great friend and rallycross opponent Erling Jensen of Denmark—was given his first kart when he was eight-years…
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