Championship record
1
World titles
1
1
Runner-up
1
3
Top-3 finishes
2
P1
Best championship
P1
Career totals
Jenson Button
John Surtees
Championships
1
1
Wins
15
6
Poles
8
8
Podiums
50
24
Fastest laps
8
0
Career points
1,235
180
Starts
309
112
Rate-adjusted · per start
Jenson Button
John Surtees
Win rate
4.9%
5.4%
Podium rate
16.2%
21.4%
Pole rate
2.6%
7.1%
Points / start
4.0
1.6
Avg grid
P10.0
P7.7
Avg finish
P9.7
P10.3
Finish rate
79.6%
50%
Rates reward peak form; totals reward longevity. Avg grid/finish: lower is better.
On-track overtaking
Jenson Button
John Surtees
Overtakes
2,746
0
Overtakes / race
9.2
0.0
Places lost
2,334
0
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
Jenson Button
John Surtees
Mechanical retirements
37
50
Crash retirements
22
5
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: 4 · 1
Milestones & racecraft
2000
Debut season
1960
2006 · aged 26
First win
1963 · aged 29
2004
First pole
1960
2009 · aged 29
First title
1964 · aged 30
P1
Best finish
P1
+0.3
Avg places gained
-2.7
Season points trajectory
Jenson Button
John Surtees
Final points each season — scoring systems changed over the eras.
Track by track
| Circuit | Jenson Button | John Surtees |
|---|---|---|
| W · Pod · Best | W · Pod · Best | |
| Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | 0 · 4 · P2 | 2 · 2 · P1 |
| Nürburgring | 0 · 1 · P3 | 2 · 4 · P1 |
| Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | 1 · 3 · P1 | 1 · 1 · P1 |
| Circuit de Monaco | 1 · 3 · P1 | 0 · 0 · P4 |
| Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | 0 · 0 · P12 | 1 · 2 · P1 |
| Silverstone Circuit | 0 · 0 · P4 | 0 · 3 · P2 |
| Hockenheimring | 0 · 3 · P2 | 0 · 0 · P9 |
| Red Bull Ring | 0 · 0 · P4 | 0 · 0 · — |
Team history
Jenson Button
John Surtees
Team Lotus 1960Cooper-Climax 1961Lola 1962Ferrari 1963–1966Cooper-Maserati 1966Honda 1967–1968BRM 1969McLaren-Ford 1970Surtees 1970–1972
19602017
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).