...but there are some people (thank goodness none on this website) that believe Jenson Button is an undeserving World Champion in the waiting.
Case is, Button's been the one who has done the business, and in 9 days is likely to become F1's 31st World Champion, and the first World Champion in history to have had to wait over 100 races for their first GP win.
"Jenson only won at the start because his car was much better than anyone else's!"
Most people who state this also mention the diffuser issue. Whilst this above statement could be considered true, let's not forget something here: Williams and Toyota also started the season with the diffusers, but they hadn't designed the best car on the grid. You can't exactly blame Jenson for winning with a decent car when he's not the one designing it. Not to mention his first two wins this year weren't exactly easy either - Vettel and Kubica were closing on him in the final stages of the Australian GP until Vettel got too defensive and took the pair of them out, and in Malaysia a poor start meant he had to fight back to the front again, and once he took the lead was being caught by Glock and Webber - the weather being the culprit of stopping those two from catching him. China was a 1-2 for Red Bull, but Bahrain was a mastercIass in how to beat the field. In Spain Rubens just wasn't fast enough when he needed to be, and in Monaco Jenson just did the job great. Turkey could've been a whole lot different if Vettel hadn't run wide at the start but alas, Button still probably would've won.
"He's doing rubbish now, he's getting awful results all the time!"
The good people of GS would not come out with a response like this, which is always a good thing to remember, but there are the critics who will say these things that aren't as well in the know about F1 as we are. Simply, Brawn does not have the funding/R&D which the likes of McLaren, Ferrari, BMW and Renault can afford. It was always inevitable even before the start of the season that Brawn would be unlikely to be the top team by the end of the season, but still people persist to say Jenson continually has bad weekends. The case is he's only had one, potentially two, awful weekends of which were his fault: Valencia, where he could only manage 7th where Rubens drove brilliantly to win, and Spa with a qualifying effort that could've been much better.
Also, Button has the most points finishes of anyone this year - in fact, you have to go back to Michael Schumacher in 2003 for the last time a World Champion won the season failing to score at only one race in the entire season, a feat Button so far currently has. The only reason he didn't score in Spa was of a crash caused by Grosjean too - given Button jumped Barrichello off the start and Barrichello made it in the points by the end, fairly safe tosay that barring any dramatics for Jenson he would still have a 100% scoring record as we speak.
"Rubens is doing way better than Jenson!"
It took Barrichello EIGHT races just to finish a race ahead of Button. By then, Brawn was no longer the top car - it was Red Bull. Brawn was the car to beat for the first 7 races - Jenson took 61 points of a possible 65 in those 7 races, Barrichello - in the exact same car - scored just 35. Jenson was on the podium all 7 of those races, Barrichello just three times. When the opportunity was there, Rubens just simply didn't take it, and now he is beating his teammate, Button is pretty much always right behind him - in the entire season, there have only been two races where Rubens has managed to take more than 2 points out of Button's lead: Silverstone (3 points) and Valencia (8 points). Of the other three races that Barrichello has finished ahead of Button, he's only managed to take either one or two points out of him. So 15 races in to the season, Button has still finished ahead of Rubens on a count of 10-5 (and even if you take retirements in to consideration, it still lands 9-4 in Button's favour). Button has been on the podium 8 times this year, Barrichello 6. Still gonna tell me Barrichello is the better of the two overall?
"Jenson's one of the worst drivers in the field..."
Sure, we have the Hamiltons, Vettels and Kubicas in F1 now, but it was only 5 years ago that Button was considered the 4th best in the entire field, behind Schumacher, Alonso and Raikkonen. Given Schumacher is now retired, and adding the three that I mentioned earlier in to the pack, that still makes Button the 6th best on the grid - ahead of 14 other drivers on the field, which includes his teammate Barrichello. The thing is Button's technique in driving a car is much more different to anyone else's - he drives with ease and elegance, and is the least likely driver in the field to lock a tyre under braking. This way of driving means he is one of the best at managing tyre degredation, as was seen in Monaco when everyone else lost grip in their tyres but Button kept on going without a problem. The only downside to this is he can't generate the heat in his tyres as the rest of the field can because of their more aggressive approach to driving a car. That has lead to some bad downfalls during this season (noting Silverstone especially given where Barrichello finished and where Button finished), but just look at how he races - when he sniffs an opportunity, he's always been on it. In Silverstone he had a chance of beating Rosberg to the line after the final stops, and he became the fastest guy in the field. Singapore, he had the chance to jump Kovalainen and Barrichello but needed to put in some scorching laps - he did justthat and passed the pair of them.
At the end of the day, it gets rather irritating seeing so many people wanting an underdog in an underdog car winning the World Title, only for them to then say the guy who's about to do it is undeserving. Vettel has proven fast but unreliable (only one of his DNF's to date is mechanical-related, the rest are all driver errors), Webber's just taken too long to get himself in the picture, and by then it was too late, and Barrichello never took the opportunity at the start of the season when the goal was wide open to storm ahead in the Championship. The end result is Button, with only one bad weekend which was his fault in Valencia, has done a better job of this year than the rest. That's why he's at the top, and that's why he's still the odds-on favourite for the World Championship.
It's going to be one of the happiest moments of my life finally seeing my favourite driver take a well-deserved World Championship, and make a new record in the process.
And one last thing: When everyone else said Button was going to have a Schumacher-like 2002/4 season, who was the only one saying Button would actually have an Alonso-like 2006 season? Me. And I was right.