Honestly what the freaking hell? Magnussen keeps beating Button in qualifying, he's been ahead of him multiple times in races, beaten Button well in a few races and had a few finishes ahead of Button(or would have been ahead) taken away by penalties, you're talking complete and utter rubbish.
If the races with penalties(one certainly wasn't deserved, the other actually had no effect on the race his position or Button in any way shape or form) hadn't happened then effectively Magnussen would have finished ahead of Button 5 times while Button would have finished ahead of Magnussen 11 times... at the same time Magnussen has beaten Button in qualifying 10 times to 8.
he's new, these are pretty much the most complex cars in F1 history, he's a rookie, he's not used to Mclaren either let alone the actual cars. Button has had years of experience in this car, with the steering wheel, with his engineers.
It is no where near the white wash you and others have portrayed.
How is it Button lost out in qualifying to Magnussen if he was that absolutely awful, how did he finish ahead in 3 races and could/should have been too more. He's also had other things like punctures ruin a race from recollection.
He hasn't been fantastic, I'm not saying he's fantastic, he absolutely, categorically hasn't been as bad as you've said. You're implying he's one of the worst drivers you've ever seen yet, that would imply a guy who basically got beaten in every single qualifying and got beaten easily in every single race except for maybe a couple of fluke races where Button had issues. That isn't even close to the case.
Actually they're 9-9 on Qualifying, but please, don't let the facts get in the way, and with Button's Gearbox (Austin), and his Electrical Breakdown (Singapore) he'd be battering Magnusson to the tune of 15 races to 1 (in terms of who finished ahead)...Also, Perez did better against Button than Magnusson is doing this year, and he got dropped by Mclaren. But as we all know Ron will be too proud of Magnusson because of all the dribble he spouted about him, banging on about how he was the second coming before he'd even got in an F1 car...and now, the sad fact is that that has not come to fruition for Ron whatsoever, infact Magnusson has thoroughly and utterly diminished during the course of the season.
There is nothing whatsoever to suggest that he is a future WDC. He has led a backwards trend throughout the season, and his form has worsened whilst Button's has got better. The fact that these cars are so utterly different to drive to last years (look at Sebastian Vettel) should actually make it easier for Magnusson and give him more of an advantage, not less of one.
Button, as you say has been around for longer, so he's had to rewire his brain to adapt to the regulations, which many "top level" drivers have failed to do (see Kimi, see Seb, cheers)....For Magnusson he has simply had to
wire his brain to it, he's young, he should be soaking that car up, the steering wheel, the way it feels etc. very quickly indeed, adapting to it and getting on with the job, thereby putting in the performances. This, he simply has not managed to do.
Apart from getting his elbows out, and getting a bit feisty sometimes, albeit to the tune of a few penalties for driving outside of the boundaries of what is deemed fair racing, oh and that semi-impressive drive in Austin, he really has done nothing, I repeat nothing to show that he has enough talent going forwards.
It's a well documented opinion held by many on here, yourself included, that Button is awful at Qualifying... Magnusson was alleged to to be "lightning quick" by the Mclaren senior figures before the season began. They have qualified 9-9. Hardly smacks of "lightning quick" then given "old man Button's" qualifying ability?
Tether that with Magnusson's race craft, and sorry Ron, but you're golden prodigy isn't the Danish whizz kid Superstar you thought he was. Bottas is better, Ricciardo is better, Hulkenberg is better, even Romain Grosjean is better I dare say, there I said it. Grosjean > Magnusson. Button has dominated Magnusson this year, he is a proven WDC, he has got double the amount of points that Magnusson has, he's got a 15 year wealth of experience and he's got the race craft to win races given a decent car.
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