will button keep his lead for wdc or lose it all before it is over?
 

8 races to GO, 21 points ahead

button 68 (6 wins)
vettel 47 (two wins)
webber 45.5 (one win)

seems a couple of years ago, there was this driver with A 17 point lead and two races to go......http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...s/rolleyes.gif

Will button hold on?http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...s/confused.gif
will webber start rackin up victories......http://www.motorsportforums.com/images/smilies/eek.gif


did the bookies already pay off, maybe too early??http://www.motorsportforums.com/imag...lies/dozey.gif

The bookmakers was foolish. I have to say that this is racing and in racing everything can happens. Button might lose the WDC or win it two races before the end. I don't know, everything can happen. We saw what happened with Loeb in the WRC...

I don't think Button will lose it, although he may not have the car to hang on to his lead. Brawn need to up their game because Red Bull clearly have the strongest car at the moment.

Just a matter of time until Ferrari, Williams and McLaren will be all beating the BrawnGPs.

Button still has a chance, he's the number 1 driver at Brawn, and the problem his competitors have is that they can't favour one of their drivers. It's just like McLaren in 07, the Red Bull drivers are going to take points off each other and Button will just scrape through I think.

But if Brawn don't show an improvement in pace in Hungary I may well have to rethink that..

It really all depends on how many other cars are able to beat them.
I'm not sure why RedBull aren't bringing STR up to their level in order to have them beat the Brawns or at least make their life difficult to make further unforced and strategy mistakes?!

And people were saying this season was boring!

Well it was... after Turkey! http://www.motorsportforums.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Button will be desperate to win a race soon again, because if he is not to win again this season, I can't see him holding on to his world championship lead.

I dont see Button winning this years WDC title. The competition has caught up to and passed the Brawn GP cars.

I have to say I hope Webber wins the title - that would be amazing. Will Button lose it? Too early to call.

Bar the mac's, they just did - Massa P3, Rosberg P4, Button P5.

As it goes I think that fact will help him. Ferarri can't be far from winning again, Williams surely can get a podium on current form and Mac might just have turned a corner. With 5 teams fighting over the top 8 places (assuming no single one team dominates the final half) it could be much harder to close the gap.

For me, I think that someone with 6 wins, fails to finish the next two races, and webber finishes second in the next two races and is leading the wdc, with only one race victory, well, bernie is right, the current point system is screwed towards high finishes and not victories (11 races, one guy with 6 wins and a guy with 1 win [or two wins as with vetttels) and a bunch of podium and near podium finishes beats him.......

The medal system is not any better either. I think the 10,6,4.... was much much much better.

Looks like it's going to be a more interesting second half of the season. I think it will be a close run thing for Jensen.

Well, Button has still got a healthy lead in the championship despite two unsuccessful races. Red Bull needs to be basically flawless in the second half of the season to catch up and Brawn may have better weekends than the last two. We will see.

On current form Button is going to be doing some seroious looking over his shoulder in terms of his WDC lead.

http://www.motorsportforums.com/images/styles/World/icons/icon14.gif Or, if you want to pay points through 8th, go to 15-9-6-5-4-3-2-1.

Winning is defninitely underrated in the current system. If you look at the 10-6-4 system, 3rd place got only 40% of the winning points. Under the current system, 5th does as well as 3rd did under the old one. Why risk the pass? http://www.motorsportforums.com/images/smilies/ermm.gif

Before Max and Bernie got all caught up in the Metal System, they should have just gone back to the old scoring weights to see what happens. Of course, they adopted the current system after Schumacher clinched the title so early in 2002, but that year he would have smoked the field in a 10-9-9-9-9-9 scoring system.

ClarkFan

I think things will start to go Jenson's way again in the forthcoming races, considering that the conditions are likely to benefit the car more so than in the previous two races.