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Monday March 10, 2008

A mistake they made..

To: autosport.letters@haymarket.com

I am sure this will not be the only email you get regarding the 'top ten rainmasters' article but surely someone made a mistake during the editing of that article in the March 6th edition of Autosport.

In the first section where you describe the skills needed to drive in wet and changeable conditions you have a picture of Jenson Button in the recalcitrant Honda RA107 with the words "Jenson Button knows how to make the most of the wet".

The second section where you rate ten drivers who "made the most of these conditions" has the sentence "and there is no place here for those who rode their luck on one grey, soggy day, men such as ... and Jenson Button"

This must be a mistake. Agreed Jenson rode his luck at Hungary where his win was gifted to him after Alonso had problems but he has shown his wet weather skill on unumerable times - the one that stands out for me was at Indy where he went onto slicks and was instantly much faster than other drivers - some of whom went on slicks and fell of the track.

Paul.

( Mar 10 2008, 01:36:30 AM PDT ) Permalink

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