He made his F1 debut as a 20-year-old in 2000, and went on to score one of the most improbable championship victories nine years later.
How well do you know the F1 career of Jenson Button?
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AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
16th August 2011, 13:50
Truly. Dreadful.
2/20. Lowest score so far :D
I’m terrible with F1 history but not bad with anything 2009 onwards.
SirCoolbeans (@sircoolbeans)
16th August 2011, 15:23
I’ve been watching the sport for 20 years, I’m terrible too though! I just can’t remember any more, everything blends together! hehe.
On a side note, I’m off to visit your home town this weekend. I believe my girlfriend went to the same school as you. Random, considering I grew up in London and met her on the Isle of Wight.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
16th August 2011, 22:07
Wow, so she went to Parkside school yea? Small world! What’s her name? Might know her.
raymondu999 (@raymondu999)
16th August 2011, 14:04
Darn! 18. Not bad for a rookie attempt at a driver quiz though. Keith, is it possible to see what we got right/wrong?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
16th August 2011, 14:08
Not at the moment.
raymondu999 (@raymondu999)
16th August 2011, 15:10
I take it then our answers are now in part ferme? :P
Antony Butler (@butler_f1)
16th August 2011, 14:08
I got 12 :(
As someone who is a little bit obsessed with my boy JB, i find this frankly pathetic! Oh well.
matt90 (@matt90)
16th August 2011, 14:15
A sign of how poor I’ve been doing that 11 feels like I won.
jonchuckle (@jonchuckle)
16th August 2011, 14:58
5. Groan.
Jake (@jleigh)
16th August 2011, 15:02
6 again…consistency is key in this sport :p
Tango (@tango)
16th August 2011, 15:19
7 and it’s my best quizz yet. I Should probably relocate at F1mildlyknowledgeable.co.uk
wigster (@wigster)
16th August 2011, 15:45
5/20. Oh dear. I’m really not as good at these quizzes as I should be.
My problem is I can’t actually remember anything that happened before around 2005 which isn’t very good when all these quizzes are about drivers with long careers.
f1alex (@f1alex)
16th August 2011, 16:39
Damn, I didn’t realise that if you don’t complete it you automatically get 0, even though many of the answers I had done were right because when I retook it I got 15! Need to work on speed next time.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
16th August 2011, 16:45
Sorry to hear that – I might have to make the warnings a bit clearer.
f1alex
16th August 2011, 18:27
Ah no problem, I should have looked properly first :) Cheers for the reply!
damonsmedley (@damonsmedley)
16th August 2011, 18:32
I’m not sure about that. I didn’t finish the first time, but I finished the second time and it counted my score.
Murraytastic (@sharon)
17th August 2011, 8:42
I ran out of time twice and it has recorded two zero scores against my name, but not the third attempt where I managed to finish it in the time. I’ve done two of the other quizzes (2010 season and Senna) and the software ignored the attempts where I ran out of time and just recorded the score when I completed them within the time limit. I’m a bit confused about what is supposed to happen. In the instructions it says
Not that you will get a score of 0 if you aren’t in the time limit.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
17th August 2011, 8:52
If you run out of time you score zero. Obviously if you could just keep on re-taking the quiz and improving your score there wouldn’t be any point in having a time limit.
We have been improving and upgrading the code since it was introduced on the site, including a glitch which allowed some users to re-take quizzes having failed the time limit.
Murraytastic (@sharon)
17th August 2011, 8:59
Thanks for clarifying Keith. I did think that was a bit of a glitch in the system! Could you make that rule a little clearer in the instructions please?
Fixy (@)
16th August 2011, 19:47
Noo! Due to the slow connection I started the wuiz when 2 minutes had already passed, and at my third try I finished it, with 12/20, but my counted score is 0! :(
HounslowBusGarage (@hounslowbusgarage)
16th August 2011, 21:02
Timed out! Terrible, would have scored at least two points if I’d completed it.
Didn’t realise there were only two minutes available.
David-A (@david-a)
16th August 2011, 21:23
There are five minutes available.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
16th August 2011, 21:24
It should be five – did you only get two?
HounslowBusGarage (@hounslowbusgarage)
17th August 2011, 12:29
Interesting, I think there may be a glitch in the clock/timer.
I just went back to the quiz and got a display of 8 seconds that immediately went blank. I came out of the page and went back in and got five minutes but only the top part of the figures was showing. Third time, I got no seconds at all! The clock display was blank.
I’m using a completely vanilla IE8 browser but I do have a hefty firewall, so I wonder if that might be part of the problem.
David-A (@david-a)
16th August 2011, 21:23
Before I posted on this, there were 17 comments. I got 17 out of 20. I am ranked 17th.
f199player (@f199player)
16th August 2011, 22:22
Laptop ran out off battery and ran out of time so zero. plugged it in and got 19 but first results count
Ady
17th August 2011, 8:09
“Must be logged in to view this Quiz” Damn, the login never works for me, have tried resetting password but I never receive an email. I try re-registering and my email is already in use.
Ady (@ady)
17th August 2011, 8:12
Apologies, been a few months since I tried the lost password thing, tried again and have now received the email.
tobinen (@tobinen)
17th August 2011, 12:16
Damn IE8, I can’t play it
AdrianMorse (@adrianmorse)
17th August 2011, 12:21
Strangely, I think in previous quizzes when I timed out, that attempt didn’t count, and I got the score when I retook the quiz and finished in time. Has this been changed? If so, I recommend that when the timer reaches zero, you get the score from the completed questions. This time, I timed out just before the final question, which I skipped anyway because I didn’t know the answer.
A second remark is that 5 minutes is very short for me. I really ought to skip, or quickly (randomly?) guess the answers to questions I do not immediately know. Instead, I like to give some of the questions a little bit of thought; this trip down memory lane being part of the fun of the quiz for me.
Finally, to Jenson Button. Much of his career overlapped with a period of my life in which I only followed the races with a casual interest, and even if Jenson was always a noteworthy driver, his pre-2009 exploits are not imprinted in my brain. A score of 7 out 10 on my second attempt was therefore not too terrible, especially compared to my disappointing score of 10 for the 2010 quiz, when I did follow pretty much every session of the (pre-)season.
BBT (@bbt)
18th August 2011, 11:53
Recorded as zero, but I knew 2! Doh!