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Jenson Button’s 2009 Brawn GP automobile goes up for public sale
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Jenson Button’s 2009 Brawn GP automobile goes up for public sale

By Miles Cooper February 14, 2025
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This Could, in Miami, the public sale home Bonhams will put up for bid Jenson Button’s Brawn GP automobile from the 2009 season. The automobile comes with an asterisk: it isn’t really the one Button drove to the F1 world driver’s championship — it’s the one he was given underneath authorized duress.

The main points of Brawn GP’s 2009 F1 season quantity to one of many nice underdog tales in all of sports activities historical past: the staff, left for useless by its earlier homeowners, received six of the primary seven races because of an excellent “double diffuser” downforce breakthrough by engineer-owner Ross Brawn — solely to seek out itself desperately attempting to keep up a dwindling late-season factors lead in each the drivers championship (for Jenson Button) and the constructor’s championship as the remainder of the paddock caught on, and caught up.

Because the historical past books and/or Keanu Reeves will remind us, Brawn GP and Button managed to white-knuckle their means by way of the remainder of the season, warding off Crimson Bull-Renault and a younger Sebastian Vettel to lock up each F1 trophies within the season’s second-to-last race, at Interlagos.

Jenson Button’s 2009 Brawn GP automobile goes up for public sale

Button and Barrichello coming in 1-2 within the 2009 Australian GP

The fairy story then turned a bit messy after everybody stepped off the ultimate podium. Per his contract, Jenson was owed a Brawn BGP 001 automobile from the season. Mercedes, having taken over Brawn heading into the 2010 season, purchased out Button’s contract — however by no means delivered the automobile. The reigning driver’s champion sued in April of 2010 for what he was owed.

Button rejected Mercedes’ first provide — a reproduction chassis manufactured within the Brawn manufacturing unit in the course of the offseason — on the grounds that he needed the actual deal (and his contract stipulated as a lot). Since Ross Brawn himself stored the championship-winning 001/02 chassis, and Mercedes stored the 03, the court-mandated resolution led to Mercedes handing over the 01 chassis. Pushed by Button’s teammate Rubens Barrichello by way of the primary 14 races of the 2009 season, the automobile noticed six podiums, together with two wins at Valencia and Monza.

Button held onto his hard-won Brawn automobile up till final 12 months, when he bought it off to a personal proprietor. Now the BGP 001/01 chassis, itself a contentious reminder of that surreal season, will go up for public sale through Bonhams on Could 3 in Miami throughout F1’s Miami GP weekend.

Neither a gap value nor an estimated promoting vary has been shared by Bonhams, however with current auctions of championship automobiles pushed by Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton gaveling within the vary of £5 million or extra, Button’s BGP 001/01 will definitely price greater than he paid for it. 

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