Poll: Italian Grand Prix 2016, Monza - Race 14/21

Rate the 2016 Italian Grand Prix out of ten

  • 1

    Votes: 9 8.0%

  • 2

    Votes: 13 11.6%

  • 3

    Votes: 23 20.5%

  • 4

    Votes: 18 16.1%

  • 5

    Votes: 18 16.1%

  • 6

    Votes: 15 13.4%

  • 7

    Votes: 10 8.9%

  • 8

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • 9

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • 10

    Votes: 4 3.6%
  • Total voters
    112
  • Poll closed .
Going by the Mclaren Facebook page button is some sort of third driver/advisor. But what it really is is mclaren hedging their bets in case Alonso decides to walk next year because the car is still shash leaving them a driver short knowing full well Jenson will run in and cover them...

I think I would've told them to poke it and gone elsewhere albeit not F1.
 
Yeah I've no idea why he's signed in this sort of limbo role either.

He'll only get a drive again like Kingpin says if Alonso bails after next preseason cos the cars rubbish in which case he'll just spend another year driving a shopping trolley round in 12th again. If the cars good he won't get a sniff cos Alonso won't go.

If Alonso quits after next season would Mclaren stick a 38 year old who hasn't driven for a year in in place of a more up and coming driver?
 
Button needs to man the hell up and let go of F1.

He could leave with dignity and go on to other things such as endurance racing but, from this announcement, it's obviously he just can't let it go and figures he can probably play around at some other stuff next year and maybe even get a drive again the year after.

The same weekend Massa showed how to leave with dignity, Button shows us how to cling on with desperation.
 
I'm just watching Teds Notebook and he just specifically said that he won't be doing any WEC next year.. So if that's true, what will he actually be doing next year if he can't/won't do things such as WEC??? And who's to say he'll be any good jumping in a 2018 car for a year? (And then most probably released for 2019 by grey Ron)

It all sounds so needlessly complicated. He should just leave at the end of the year to be honest, he doesn't owe them anything and he is a WC at the end of the day, there's nothing left to prove.

I also loved how Mclarens press release called it an innovative 3 driver strategy. :D:D Tell me Ron, how many cars do you have available to these three drivers?:o
 
Or the 8 that Ferrari had on their books "ready" to drive the car in 2010: Alonso, Massa, Fisichella, Badoer, Gené, Bianchi, Rossi and Räikkönen had a contract for 2010 but was paid off.

I can't see Button returning to a race seat in the future but it's a great way of leaving the sport without going cold turkey and I'd much rather he did this than float about in the Williams retirement home and then quit after a couple of seasons. Alonso might have another "accident" during testing.

I bet Mrs Wolff is a bit annoyed about retiring earlier because right now no one wants to drive the Williams!
 
Psycho Ned said:
Yeah I've no idea why he's signed in this sort of limbo role either.
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£5m to use the simulator, run in a few test / P1 sessions and only attend 1/3 of the races that year - sounds like a good crack to me.

It also means that is they have a good car next year and Stoffel isn't all he promises to be, Button can just be parachuted in as a replacement.
 
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Cosimo said:
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Rosberg looks properly down in the dumps, and rightly so. Last race was his opportunity to close the gap but Lewis took third and now he utterly destroyed him in Qualifying yesterday. This year's championship, that looked like a real chance for Rosberg five or six races in, now looks like it's slipped through his fingers.
 
Mr Jack said:
Rosberg looks properly down in the dumps, and rightly so. Last race was his opportunity to close the gap but Lewis took third and now he utterly destroyed him in Qualifying yesterday. This year's championship, that looked like a real chance for Rosberg five or six races in, now looks like it's slipped through his fingers.
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It's a bit early for that. He was poor yesterday, and indeed he's been poor all weekend. He's been much faster than the times have suggested, but he was always messing up a different sector on his hot laps. Hamilton on the other hand has been much more consistent as well as quick, so I'm expecting an easy win for himtoday.

Other than that, I don't think Rosberg's been especially poor of late. Hamilton got lucky in Spa (I thought he was disappointing in Spa), and without Magnussen's crash it might have been a different story. Rosberg was the stronger driver earlier in the season - Hamilton looked like Rosberg is at the moment - but Rosberg's form has dipped and he needs to regain some consistency to have a chance, but there's a long way to go yet and all it takes is one retirement or poor race and the championship could swing.


It's odd with luck. People have been saying Hamilton's been unlucky this year, but most of his problems have either been before the race (allowing him to score points) or partly of his own doing. You could easily argue he's been extremely lucky. And of course he's had to replace engine parts, but the penalties he got were all negated by a massive lump of luck last weekend.

He's now got more engines than Rosberg and lost little in the way of points along the way. It's interesting how this 'luck' thing is interpreted.
 
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