Race by race, win by win, the doubters disappear and although Lewis Hamilton is reluctant to come out and say that his defence is shot through, he now says he is putting some of his fortune on Button to inherit his world title.
Winning Monaco is special for any driver and to do it with the dominance he showed on Sunday as part of a string of successes has demonstrated that he and his car can race in heat, rain, slow corners, fast corners.
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Little wonder F1’s youngest ever world champion, Hamilton, said: “Jenson is doing a fantastic job and clearly he is in the best position to win the championship.
“Bit by bit we get better, but not as quick as the Brawns.”
In Monaco, Button had enough time to trim his nails as he drove around to victory while the grandee teams such as Ferrari, McLaren and Renault were again talking of taking steps forward.
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Yet Brawn describes his former Honda team now as a “boutique” when shaping up against the megastores that are McLaren and Ferrari.
“We are obviously doing it with a lot less resource than Ferrari, so it’s a different approach,” said Brawn, who knows every detail of the Scuderia’s operation after a decade guiding them and Michael Schumacher.
Button won’t hear of talk that the title is all but his, for he has had enough disappointment in his career to understand premature elation. Yet the fans and the sponsors are flocking back after his years in the wilderness.
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