Brilliant Button does it in style!

Well, here it is the first post on my new blog. All these years ranting about how wonderful and free the interweb is and it’s only now I got round to writing my first post. I’ve written on bulletin boards, letters to editors (which have been published regularly and on occasion won prizes and star letter awards  – I know unbelievable that I could get that!). So why now? Well, simples (thanks Aleksandr – meerkat.com), today saw Jenson become World F1 Champion. How absolutely marvellous! It’s great to see something that we can all be positive about – yes I’ve already seen people writing negative things ‘Is he a worthy champion?’, ‘Why praise someone who doesn’t pay UK tax?’ etc etc Well guess what? After the tuff times that this country has seen, its nice to take a moment to just revel in something positive. Bask in the fact that he is British and with the gymnastics and F1 it’s superb.

It was made more superb because he demonstrated what you need to get through all the negativism – he believed, he took risks, he raced (which si something sadly lacking from today’s F1) and he raced hard. He pushed himself and his co-drivers to drive hard and race hard. It wasn’t all down to him, Webber, Hamilton et al, great racers and drove a great race. But, just watching Jenson scything through the competition and pushing and pushing hard to fulfil his dream and do it today – awesome. Yes there was some luck to help him out but then he’s had a fair amount of bad luck through the years and so today is a celebration.

Let’s for once just forget everything else and focus on enjoying the moment, supporting Jenson without any hidden jibes and relish the fact that when everything seems to be pretty naff, there is a shining light to make us remember that you only get through all the rubbish by fighting and being positive.

Well done Jenson, you are, literally a star – and the headlines tomorrow?…..  ‘Brilliant Button’  Has to be – simply because it’s true.