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Jacques Villeneuve, Damon Hill and Jenson Button.
Jenson did have it on a platter, he even managed to hold onto it while completely fluffing the whole second half of the season.
mmccarthy-
Jenson had some unlucky races in the latter half of the season -- the "fluffing" was IIRC the FIA coming under massive pressure to outlaw the new s-duct systems of Brawn, plus like most Teams that year , struggled with getting new tyres up to temperature in cool races - button had his fare share of bad luck too getting hit a few times by some other drivers - and also Brawn IMHO should have backed 1 driver for the title about 1/2 way through the season - and the biggest factor of all , Brawn was running on basically next to no money in the latter half of the season with hardly any development on the car.
dont get me wrong, i too think Button is not an out an out top 5 driver - but a lot of factors are involved in his last half of his title winning season "fluffing" - give him his due, he also had some fantastic races and overtaking in that season also!
anthonyj
the least inspiring world champ since, fuck, I don't even know.
name one worse. at least button was likeable and raikkonen had funny moments.
[edit - I meant driver, not series]