One-time Formula 1 champion Jenson Button revealed he is \u201cjealous\u201d of Aston Martin drivers Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button despite a difficult start to the 2026 season for the team.<\/p>\n
In 2024, legendary F1 designer Adrian Newey joined Aston Martin<\/a>, with a view to catapult the midfield team into race-winning contention when the significantly altered 2026 regulations came into effect.<\/p>\n Although the campaign has begun as more of a nightmare than a dream, Button would have \u201cloved\u201d to have raced machinery from the Newey\u2019s brain, with the Briton\u2019s designs having won 14\u00a0drivers’\u00a0and 12\u00a0constructors’\u00a0titles and 223\u00a0Grands Prix.<\/p>\n \u201cI’d love to drive one of these new-generation cars, especially one designed by Adrian Newey,\u201d he wrote in Jenson\u2019s Journal for Aston Martin.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve raced against a lot of his cars over the years and always wondered what it would be like to work with him. I guess you could say I’m a little bit jealous of Lance<\/a> and Fernando<\/a> in this respect.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cSeeing Adrian operate up close is fascinating. He’s very old school \u2013 notebook in hand, sketching ideas on a drawing board \u2013 but that’s part of what makes him such a master. He really is.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd yes, I may have tried to sneak a peek at his notebook… he noticed.\u201d<\/p>\n In the off-season, Button switched his ambassadorial role with Williams for one with Aston Martin.<\/p>\n The team is yet to have a classified finish this term, and neither driver took part in qualifying at the Australia season-opener, with severe vibrations form the Honda power unit limiting running.<\/p>\n Assessing the new regulations, Button added: \u201cThis year is particularly interesting because we’re stepping into another new technical era. But some things never change: Formula One is still the pinnacle of motorsport. Nothing really compares to the feeling of driving an F1 car: the power, the braking, the way the car moves underneath you when you’re right on the limit. It never gets old.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cThese cars are out-of-this-world fast.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the way these cars work is evolving. The power units now behave quite differently to what drivers have been used to. In the past, you’d exit a corner and know exactly how much power you had.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Now, it depends on things like brake pressure in the previous corner and how the hybrid system deploys energy. It means drivers need to think on their feet more than ever. Those who can do this well are going to stand out for the right reasons \u2013 and those who can’t are going to stand out for the wrong ones.\u201d<\/p>\n Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One-time Formula 1 champion Jenson Button revealed he is \u201cjealous\u201d of Aston Martin drivers Fernando Alonso and Jenson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[10968,2495,64,63,817,813,816,850,85],"class_list":["post-556939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-10968","tag-aston-martin","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-jenson-button","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}