Championship record
1
World titles
1
0
Runner-up
1
3
Top-3 finishes
3
P1
Best championship
P1
Career totals
Alan Jones
Jenson Button
Championships
1
1
Wins
12
15
Poles
6
8
Podiums
24
50
Fastest laps
0
8
Career points
206
1,235
Starts
117
309
Rate-adjusted · per start
Alan Jones
Jenson Button
Win rate
10.3%
4.9%
Podium rate
20.5%
16.2%
Pole rate
5.1%
2.6%
Points / start
1.8
4.0
Avg grid
P11.5
P10.0
Avg finish
P11.4
P9.7
Finish rate
59%
79.6%
Rates reward peak form; totals reward longevity. Avg grid/finish: lower is better.
On-track overtaking
Alan Jones
Jenson Button
Overtakes
0
2,746
Overtakes / race
0.0
9.2
Places lost
0
2,334
Sum of lap-by-lap positions gained on track — start lap and own pit laps excluded.
Only races with lap data count, so the per-race figure is the fair comparison across eras.
Why they retired
Alan Jones
Jenson Button
Mechanical retirements
31
37
Crash retirements
14
22
Classified from the finishing status. Mechanical covers car failures, crash covers accidents, collisions and damage — fewer is better on both.
Retirements with an unclear cause: 3 · 4
Milestones & racecraft
1975
Debut season
2000
1977 · aged 30
First win
2006 · aged 26
1979
First pole
2004
1980 · aged 33
First title
2009 · aged 29
P1
Best finish
P1
+0.1
Avg places gained
+0.3
Season points trajectory
Alan Jones
Jenson Button
Final points each season — scoring systems changed over the eras.
Track by track
| Circuit | Alan Jones | Jenson Button |
|---|---|---|
| W · Pod · Best | W · Pod · Best | |
| Circuit Gilles Villeneuve | 2 · 2 · P1 | 1 · 3 · P1 |
| Red Bull Ring | 2 · 3 · P1 | 0 · 0 · P4 |
| Hungaroring | 0 · 0 · — | 2 · 2 · P1 |
| Hockenheimring | 1 · 2 · P1 | 0 · 3 · P2 |
| Circuit de Monaco | 0 · 1 · P2 | 1 · 3 · P1 |
| Autódromo José Carlos Pace | 0 · 1 · P3 | 1 · 3 · P1 |
| Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | 0 · 0 · P11 | 1 · 3 · P1 |
| Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | 0 · 2 · P2 | 0 · 4 · P2 |
| Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari | 0 · 1 · P2 | 0 · 1 · P2 |
| Nürburgring | 0 · 0 · P5 | 0 · 1 · P3 |
| Silverstone Circuit | 0 · 0 · P7 | 0 · 0 · P4 |
| Fuji Speedway | 0 · 0 · P4 | 0 · 0 · P11 |
| Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | 0 · 0 · — | 0 · 0 · P12 |
Team history
Basis
Head-to-head counts races where both drivers were classified, compared by final position (post-penalty). Teammate section counts only seasons in the same car. Career totals mirror the source data. Data: Jolpica-F1 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).