After failing to take advantage of Jenson Button’s misfortune on Sunday, the Red Bull team have employed a little bit of psychology to try and unsettle the Brawn GP man.

Button was shunted out of the Belgian Grand Prix following an accident in the opening lap.

That gave hope to Red Bull pair Sebastien Vettel and Mark Webber who have hopes of closing in on Button at the top of the drivers’ championship.

But neither were able to make serious inroads into Button’s lead. Vettel picked up six points while Webber failed to register after finishing ninth.

Red Bull Racing chief Christian Horner insists, however, that Button can still be caught.

Horner says it is a four-horse race with Button’s team-mate Rubens Barrichello the other contender.

And he believes that Vettel or Webber could yet win the championship.

Horner’s words smack of someone desperate to put doubt in Button’s mind following a dismal run of late.

Button, has scored a total of just 11 points from the last five races, vowed to put in a more ruthless performance in Belgium.

Sadly, he never got the chance to show that after being hit by Renault’s Romain Grosjean.

Button was an anxious onlooker for the rest of the race, hoping and praying that his nearest rivals would fail.

Although disappointed at not finishing, Button was happy with the outcome.

He now has a 16-point lead over Barrichello with Vettel three points further adrift.

It is still Button’s title to lose and he must hope that he gets on the podium in the next grand prix in Italy.

You can be sure that Red Bull Racing will be cranking up the pressure before then, using every trick in the book to try and make Button feel uneasy.

It will be as much a test of Button’s character as his driving ability between now and the end of the season.

Don’t let them grind you down, Jenson.

–Nick Johnson, Red UK Editorial Staff

Arsène Wenger should worry more about the performance of his goalkeeper than that of the referee.

The Arsenal boss has complained about the penalty decisions made by Mike Dean during the Gunners’ 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford on Saturday.

Wenger is right that Arsenal should have been awarded a first-half penalty for Darren Fletcher’s rash challenge on Andrey Arshavin.

But it’s a moot point since Arshavin scored 30 seconds later as part of the same sequence of play.

Wenger is also upset that Dean awarded Manchester United a spotkick when Manuel Almunia felled Wayne Rooney.

Yet, as TV replays showed, the Spanish keeper clearly clattered Rooney after he’d latched on to Ryan Giggs’s clever pass.

By claiming that the referee had erred, Wenger absolved his goalkeeper of blame.

Which was surely missing the point. For had Almunia stayed on his line, there would have been no penalty.

Instead, the keeper launched himself rashly at the feet of a forward, running away from goal, who would always reach the ball first.

So the judgment Wenger should have been questioning was that of his goalkeeper.

Almunia was also partly to blame for United’s winner, this time staying on his line when he should have taken charge and met Giggs’s freekick.

In the absence of commanding goalkeeping, Abou Diaby misdirected his headed clearance into Almunia’s net.

It was all reminiscent of Almunia’s display in last season’s Champions League semi-final, when a Cristiano Ronaldo freekick slipped through his grasp.

Not that United’s England goalkeeper, Ben Foster, was blameless for the Arsenal goal.

Foster, who is likely to play in next week’s World Cup qualifier against Croatia, could only push Arshavin’s fierce shot into the roof of the net.

“Ben should be dealing with that. It was a bad goal to lose,” said Sir Alex Ferguson.

“It shows that even though he’s had a run of two or three games, he needs more experience.”

It’s unusual for the United manager to publicly blame a player, but his remark offered enough of a carrot and not too much stick.

And Foster redeemed himself with a splendid reflex save to prevent Robin van Persie from doubling Arsenal’s advantage before United’s equaliser.

Meanwhile, Wenger was miffed that Dean didn’t hand out more yellow cards to United players, whom he accused of “anti-football” tactics.

Quite how Emmanuel Eboué’s blatant dive, for which he was rightly booked, was pro-football Wenger has yet to explain.

–Rob Wightman, Red Senior Sports Writer

Loser: The San Francisco Giants. It’s evident to anyone paying attention that all the San Francisco Giants needed to put themselves over the top was just one legitimate, run-producing bat. With Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum, the team doesn’t need to score six or seven runs a game to win–they can get by with just four or five.

As it stands, they tend to score about only three or four. This is why it made perfect sense that, for a while, the player the Giants were most closely linked to was Victor Martinez–the biggest bat available on the market.

But somewhere along the line they decided the cost in prospects was too great and went an alternative route, trading for one of V-Mart’s cheaper available teammates, Ryan Garko, and a player Pittsburgh was basically begging to give away, infielder Freddy Sanchez.

Needless to say, the two have not combined to be the big stick that speaks softly in the middle of their batting order.

They speak softly alright, as their big stick has combined for just three home runs and 17 RBI in 39 combined games since relocating by the Bay.

Unsurprisingly, the Giants still barely average four runs per game–not enough to win in a pennant race, and certainly not enough to beat stacked lineups like Philadelphia and St. Louis in the playoffs.

Winner: Cliff Lee. It’s not exactly going out on a limb to call someone who has a 5-0 record and 0.68 ERA in five starts for his new team a winner, but Cliff Lee won in this deal beyond just getting to play for a bigger and better team.

Pitching in the Phillies’ playoff run has already more than doubled the exposure he received in Cleveland, even as a 22-game winning Cy Young awardee in 2008, and guaranteed that his value will be at an all-time high this offseason when the Phillies are likely to feel forced to lock him up long-term.

At age 31, it will be his last shot at a long-term, cash cow deal, and with the way he’s pitched the last two seasons–and with the perception that he saved the Phillies rotation–he stands to make more than even an elite left handed pitcher should. $20 million a season will not be out of the question.

Loser: the Philadelphia Phillies. Yes, the Phillies landed the best pitcher that was moved before July 31 in Cliff Lee. Yes, he has pitched brilliantly for them. And yes he has helped them march toward their third straight NL East title. What he hasn’t done for them, however, and can’t do, is close games. And no matter how many gems Lee, J.A. Happ and Cole Hamels and company pitch going forward in 2009, there’s no telling just how many of them Brad Lidge might blow.

Entering play on July 31, Lidge’s ERA was a staggering 7.11, and he had already blown six saves. Yet, the Phillies let a team with the best closer in the National League, the Dodgers, trade for the best available closer on the market, Baltimore’s George Sherrill, while making no serious run at even a potential one season stop-gap at fireman like Arizona’s Chad Qualls (let alone someone like Joakim Soria).

The struggling, but nowhere near Lidge type levels of struggling, Kerry Wood could have easily been had along with his teammate Cliff Lee, while Matt Capps of Pittsburgh was dying for a change of scenery that the Pirates were willing to provide for a low cost of prospects in return.

But the Phillies pursued none of them, and now seemed destined to have their pursuit of a second-straight title derailed by a closer that simply cannot close anything beyond people’s hopes and dreams anymore.

–Patrick Daugherty, Red Editorial Staff

–According to reports and research from the National Institutes of Health, the Obama family’s first dog Bo is actually a mutant.  Bo possesses two mutant genes, and an ancestral form of a third.  This, of course, is going to open the door to questioning Bo’s origin and birth certificate, and whether or not Bo is legally qualified to hold the office of first dog.

–California’s budget crisis is so bad that they’re having what the state is calling the “Great California Garage Sale” this weekend.  They’ve just cleaned out the basement and everything must go, from old BlackBerrys to cars and anything else they can’t use anymore . . . like Pauly Shore and Andy Dick.

–Republican gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell is dealing with the fallout of making a joke about hunting President Obama.  “Obama tags? We’d buy some of those,” he said.  Rammel has since claimed it was a joke and didn’t mean anything by it.  I believe him.  It’s an election year.

–For the first time ever, there’s an actual rehab clinic open to treat Internet, video game, and texting addictions.  Seriously.  There’s a rehab clinic for Internet addiction.  More information about them can found on the Internet . . .

–The Centers for Disease Control reported that it’s thinking of issuing an advisory for the health benefits of male circumcision in infancy, and Rush Limbaugh grabbed the ball and ran.  Rush took this information and thought it was enough to prove that “It’s President Obama who wants to mandate circumcision,” and that “if we need to save our penises from anybody, it’s Obama.”  Thanks, Rush, for putting that image in my head.  Now I need a therapist . . . and health care that will cover it.

–Speaking of health care, an increasing number of Catholic bishops are opposing Obama’s universal health care plan.  But, didn’t Jesus heal the sick for free?

–A new line of Star Trek themed aftershaves and perfumes are on sale now for the most loyal of fans.  I bet it smells like your parents’ basement . . . with a hint of loneliness.

–Joey Alfino, Red Editorial Staff

We have all had those mornings where it feels like a baby elephant is having a violent seizure on your tender skull.

Your wallet lies rifled through and empty on the shag carpet floor of some pay by the hour motel, pink fuzzy handcuffs constrain your wrists and you are in a severe quandary over whether the lovely “lady” you charmed at the bar last night had an Adams apple or not.

But she isn’t here now, having slipped away silently into the night, chuckling fondly and thumbing the wad of cash freshly pinched from your wallet while calling her “friend” Guido to tell him “she” has the money she owes him.

Cheer up, hung over camper, it happens. That wily SOB tequila got into your system and life went twisted on you.

Margaritas, the typical vehicle for tequila’s devious ways, are a staple in most bars. Made from tequila, Triple Sec and fresh or bottled lime juice, the margarita has become among the most popular drinks served around the world.

Typically served over ice with the glass rimmed in salt, the drink has run the gamut of reinvention, from purists swearing that blue agave tequila is the only one to use and that the limes must be of Mexican descent to those crazy college kids de-constructing the drink by jamming a wedge of lime in salt, licking it for its vitamin C content and sucking a solid shot of tequila out of some saucy co-eds belly button.

Ahh, the good old days.

With a history as fuzzy as your double vision the day after five or six of them and usually involving some poor drinker looking for something new and exciting who just happened to have the name Marguerite or some derivative of it, the drink has served as catalyst for many variations.

From using tequila that branches from the traditional recipe and now cavort in the fru-fru world of mixed fruity cocktails to oddball mixers, here are a few of the more notable concoctions in the margarita world: chocolate margaritas that use Tequila Godiva liqueur; mango, cherry, passion fruit and pineapple are a just a scant few fruit versions with fruit, and for the man who demands complete destruction of his liver and solid clogging of his arteries in one fell swoop, there is even a bacon margarita.  Just what you want for breakfast prior to your coming out at the Skid Row Debutantes Ball.

What follows are two recipes for the margarita experience. If its bacon or some other odd ingredient, stick it in there at your own risk. I personally only want to slaughter one organ at a time.

Cook’s Note:
The purist in me felt obligated to provide just the classic margarita recipe, but taint it with mango or peach chunks if you must. For the little kid in me, I’ve included a Margarita popsicle recipe . . . innocent in looks, devilish in taste, and quite easy to slip into the office for making that crappy Monday slip by much easier

CLASSIC FRESH LIME MARGARITA

1 1/2 cups gold tequila
1 cup Triple Sec
3/4 cup fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons super fine sugar
2 tablespoon sugar
8 cups crushed ice
2 tablespoons kosher salt
6 lime wedges
Zest of one lime

Pour tequila, lime juice, triple sec, 2 tablespoons of sugar in large pitcher. Stir the mixture until the sugar is completely dissolved.  Add the crushed ice into the pitcher. In a wide bowl, combine salt with 2 tablespoons of sugar in shallow bowl. Moisten the rim of 6 Margarita glasses with lime wedge. Dip the rim of the glasses into sugar-salt mixture and pour Margarita mixture carefully into glasses. Serve with a lime wedge garnish.

Margarita Popsicles

1 cup sugar
1 cup fresh lime juice
Zest of one lime
1/2 cup water
4 tablespoons fresh orange juice
2 tablespoons tequila
2 tablespoons Grand Marnier or Triple Sec
Kosher salt, for garnish
Popsicle molds found at super stores like Bed Bath and Beyond

Directions:
Heat the sugar, lime juice, water, orange juice in saucepan over medium-high heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. Take the mixture off the heat and add the lime zest. Set aside to cool to room temperature. You can speed the cooling by placing in the fridge for an hour.

When cool, add the tequila and Grand Marnier to the cooled mixture. Stir till combined. Pour into the popsicle molds and freeze until completely solid. This may take eight hours. Loosen the popsicles by running warm water over the molds. Briefly run the popsicles under a running faucet and then dip into a bowl filled with the kosher salt. Serve immediately and avoid sharing with stick in the mud office manager who happens to be a teetotaler.

–Tim Connors, Red Editorial Staff

–Heads shaven, beer guts hanging over designer boxer shorts, calves covered in tattoos: the scum of our society have inflicted themselves again on football. Let’s be honest, though. It was no real surprise to see them at a game between West Ham and Millwall.

–”I do not go as far to say Eduardo dived,” Arsène Wenger said after his striker won a penalty against Celtic. “He went down, for what reason I do not know. Having seen it again on television, it doesn’t look a penalty.” So, he dived!

–John Terry is UEFA’s defender of the year after Chelsea conceded 13 goals in the Champions League last season. Why not Nemanja Vidic or Rio Ferdinand, members of the Manchester United side that has conceded only 14 in the last TWO European campaigns?

–Three Premier League wins and the mauling of Doncaster in the Carling Cup–it’s been a dream start for Tottenham. On Saturday they entertain Birmingham. Surely Harry Redknapp’s men can’t slip up against a team likely to be fighting relegation. Can they?

–He’s seeded second at a grand slam for the first time and being tipped by John McEnroe to win the tournament. So maybe this really is Andy Murray’s moment to triumph at a major. The US Open begins on Monday.

–Ricky Ponting, under fire after losing a second Ashes series in England, has vowed to return in 2013, when he will be 38. “I would love to go back and give the Ashes in England one more crack,” said the Aussie skipper. You’ve got to admire his spirit.

–Red can’t help wondering how long it will be before some half-decent all-rounder is dubbed the “new Freddie Flintoff”. That would be such a mistake. Especially considering how Flintoff himself was lumbered with the “new Botham” tag early in his career.

–Rob Wightman, Red U.K. Senior Sports Writer

Just like Mudville, there has been no joy in K.C. this year . . . again.

The Royals, with the second worst record in the majors at 48-78, have all but clinched their 14th losing season over the last 15 years with just 33 games remaining and are well on the way to their fifth 100-plus loss season this decade.

They’ve lost key players like Coco Crisp, Mike Aviles and Jose Guillen to injuries and made bizarre moves like the two minor league pitching prospects they traded to Seattle for Yuniesky Bentancourt. They rank 26th in runs scored, 27th in fielding percentage and have been outscored 301 to 231 in the first four innings alone this season.

There is one number this season however Royals fans can take pride in: 23, the number worn by ace starter, Zack Greinke.

Greinke has been stellar this season. In his 181.1 innings of work Greinke has allowed 49 runs while striking out 197 and his 2.43 ERA leads the league. He has five complete games and two shutouts and has allowed just 39 walks for a WHIP of 1.12.

On Tuesday night Greinke threw his fifth game this season with 10 or more strikeouts, striking out 15 Indians batters to break Mark Gubicza’s 1988 mark of 14 for a new team single-game record.

These are Cy Young worthy numbers to be sure, there’s just one problem: Greinke is a Royal.

As a result the ace has just 12 wins and is expected to notch only 15 in the “W” column for the year–not a Cy Young number.

Therein lies the real problem; the win-loss stat is not a pitching stat, it’s a team stat as Greinke’s 21 quality starts this season stand testament to.

Add to it the fact that guys like C.C. Sabathia, Justin Verlander and Josh Beckett have 14 or more wins with teams in contention and Greinke’s numbers suddenly pale in comparison. Even last year’s AL Cy Young Cliff Lee had a 22-3 record despite pitching for the Indians who finished in third with a .500 record.

Bottom line: wins matter when deciding the Cy Young despite a pitcher’s inability to control a stagnant offense, like the Royals’, and without said wins Greinke stands about as much a chance at the coveted award as Sarah Palin had at not being parodied on SNL.

But Zack isn’t out of it yet. According ESPN’s Cy Young predictor Greinke leads by the slimmest of margins, 126.2 to Verlander’s 125.4. He likely has six starts remaining, four at home against the Angels, Tigers, Red Sox and Twins and two on the road with the Tigers and Mariners.

If Greinke can win four or five of his six remaining starts and continue to lower his ERA and up his strikeouts he could garner the award in spite of his team’s last place efforts.

And if not, Royals fans can have two things to look forward to–one: Greinke signed a four-year, 38 million dollar contract extension in the off-season and two: if they keep losing like they have this season they’ll have a top-round draft pick . . . again.

–Aaron Whitebread, Red Editorial Staff

So here we are, once again preparing ourselves for yet another UFC showdown complete with ring girls and blood lust.  This Saturday it will be Portland Oregon’s Rose Garden who will be hosting the UFC for their 102nd presentation.

But, before I get started, I really need to talk about Anderson Silva and my mistaken opinion about his future.  Apparently Silva’s camp made it very clear to Sports Illustrated this week that Silva has no interest in the Light Heavyweight title (oh well, I guess I was wrong about that); they are far more interested in the heavyweight payday! (WHAT!?) Silva’s people even gave a name for the next fighter in Silva’s crosshairs: Frank Mir.

As for the middleweight division . . . it looks like Dan Henderson might just have to face off against this weekend’s winner in the Maia/Marquardt fight before he can have his chance at Silva’s gold (or at least that’s what Silva’s wants).

Coming back to this weekend’s fights, like I normally do, I’ll be looking at the three that I think will be worth the pay-per-view bill. Starting with the headliner: Randy Couture vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.  First, both fighters are coming out of some pretty big losses, Couture in his heavyweight championship loss to Lesnar and Nogueira in his interim championship loss to Mir.

Couture is a wrestler who loves to give his victims a ground and pound while Nogueira is famed for having some of the best Brazillian Jiu Jitsu in the Heavyweight division.  I fully expect this one to end with Nogueira on his back by the second round in a TKO.  The biggest element in this fight may just be Couture’s age, if he wins, he will be the oldest person to win a fight in the UFC.

Next up, Keith “The Dean of Mean” (my absolute favourite nickname) Jardine against Thiago Silva.  Once again these two fighters are coming away with loses and want to re-establish themselves as major contenders within the light-heavyweight division.

Jardine often reminds me of a street fighter who is really good at submissions.  Silva comes out of the same academy that produced fighters such as Wanderlei Silva and Anderson Silva.  Thiago will be technically proficient from his standup to the mat and will give Jardine a run in any circumstance.  I pick Thiago Silva to win this one by decision.

Finally, Nate Marquardt vs. Demian Maia.  Like I said earlier, the winner of this fight will most probably go up against Dan Henderson to secure a title shot against Anderson Silva.

Maia is a submissions specialist (eight of his last ten wins came via submission) and he makes no qualms over how he intends to end this fight.  However, Marquardt is very strong and very powerful, getting him into a submission could end in a lot of pain for Maia.  Personally though, Maia has something special and is on a really great streak; this one is gonna end in submission by the third.

Stay tuned folks, I am just as excited as you to see how this all ends.

–Ryan Matwiy, RED Editorial Staff

Thom Beers, Chief Executive Officer of Original Productions, likes to celebrate the hard-working person–men and women not afraid of danger and taking on jobs that go way beyond a chair behind a desk.  And his successful television shows such as Deadliest Catch, a documentary television series about fishing in the Bering Sea, and Ice Road Truckers, a reality TV show about driving the dangerous ice routes, showcase these perilous jobs.

Beers is the executive producer of truTV’s Black Gold, now starting its second season.   During the show’s first season competing oil crews worked on erecting their rigs and successfully drilling crude before the other crews could get to it.  This year, the focus is on the roughnecks of Rig 28, who have only 50 days to try to save the lease on a very valuable piece of land before it expires.  It’s a feat that requires drilling four, back breaking holes.  In the words of one of the players, pipe salesman Rooster McConaughey, “It’s never been done before.”  Beers took the time to talk to Red about his series and the stories behind them.

Why do you think you’re drawn to these tough jobs and the people who do them?

These guys are absolutely living it.  That’s what I love about them.  We built this country with our hands, with honest work for honest pay.  My dad worked at Ford for 40 years, my mom was a housewife.  I don’t have a single deadbeat in my family.  Even when people got divorced, you manned up and you were responsible.  I think where we got in trouble in this county was when we picked things up and shipped them overseas.  Some people think that the only reason we won World War II is because of our soldiers who were originally farm boys.  They could pick up odd bits of things and put them together to make something.  But now we don’t make anything anymore.

Is that what attracted you to the concept of making a show about working on oil rigs?

I’m curious and I always wanted to figure things out and I’m always asking how do they do that.  I was at the gas station one day and I thought: how does this get from the ground to my tank and who does the work to get it there?

Do the jobs that we see on Black Gold or Ice Road Truckers or many of your other shows easily translate to a series?

You have to ask yourself, “What’s the challenge?”  When you’re making a show like Ice Road Truckers, I mean it’s really a guy in a truck driving in a straight line going 15 miles per hour.  But I grew up in a big Italian family and we were all storytellers.  And in Black Gold or the other series, we have these great stories.  It’s like the movie All About Eve, there are great dramatic arcs that make it a great story.

Is there a formula, so to speak, for making these shows work?

You have to have an exotic location as well as the right amount of crisis.  It has to be blue-collar and accessible.  For Black Gold, everybody I know gasses up their cars so this show just made perfect sense.

Original Productions, founded by Thom Beers in 1999, has produced over 40 series and is one of the leading suppliers of unscripted reality programming today.  Beers’ award winning shows, including Monster Garage, Iditarod, Verminators and 1,000 Ways to Die, open a door into the lives of people doing dirty and dangerous jobs.

Your shows are about tough jobs, so what type of jobs did you hold before you got into television?

I grew up in Buffalo, New York and my uncle owned a chain of pizzerias.  I worked in restaurants, I cooked for years.  I did all sorts of jobs before getting into TV 25 years ago.

You don’t just sit back and produce these shows; you’re out there with some of these guys, aren’t you?  Can you share an experience?

With Deadliest Catch we were out in those boats and it was really cold and gnarly and icy.  There was very little sleep.  And the work was very very tough.

How hard is it to take a job and turn it into a show?

Black Gold, for example, has been with me for quite a while.  You have to find people who work with you.  There are problems with liability insurance.  People worry about what will happen if something goes wrong.  But people have to trust that we’re doing the right thing.  There are a lot of disabilities and injuries on those rigs.  But someone finally came around and let us do it.

Are there other difficulties?

Sometimes you have to wait for the technology to catch up with what you’re doing to make the cost feasible.  Like for Ax Men, I avoided that for years because of the cost of having cameramen covering something like 100,000 square miles of forest.  With some series like Ice Road Truckers, the Deadliest Catch and Black Gold, it’s a limited working environment.  The deck for the Deadliest Catch is 20′ by 40′.  An oil rig is a 20′ by 30′ square foot platform and a truck cab isn’t very big.  With those you can concentrate the cameras but trying to cover a forest–well–I had to wait for the technology to get cheaper to do it.

You talk about how we don’t make things anymore.  Are you trying to teach your 12-year old son how to make things?

I had him out here and it was his first power drill experience.  We don’t make things.  A lot of people over 35 know how to do handyman type of things, a lot less under 35 do.

When you’re not on oil rigs or on a boat deck in the Bering Sea or behind your desk, what do you like to do for fun?

Hang out with my son.  He’s the joy of me, of my life.  We like to fish, go river rafting, and just spend time together.

What do you like most about your job?

Absolutely living the life with the people who do this work.  I couldn’t make The Biggest Loser, Survivor–they’re great but this is what I like.  And I think I help bring respect to people who work hard with their hands.  A guy came up to me after Monster Garage came out, and he was a car mechanic, and he said, “Thanks, you made my job cool to my kids.”  And I thought that’s not a bad way to live your life–making blue-collar workers look great.  After all, we built this country with our hands.

–Interview by Jane Ammeson, Red Editorial Staff

This weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix could be a crunch race for drivers’ championship leader Jenson Button.

Although he is 18 points clear of his nearest rival–Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello–Button has endured a poor run of late.

He has picked up just 11 points from the last four races, offering hope to the chasing pack.

Only six races remain and Red Bull pair Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel could seize on a late-season collapse from Button.

After finishing seventh in last weekend’s European Grand Prix, Button has to hope that he can keep the likes of Webber and Vettel at bay.

A win for either Red Bull driver, coupled with a poor finish for Button, could really open up the title race.

It is a scenario few would have predicted after Button’s remarkable start to the season.

Winning six out of the first seven races for the newly assembled team, Button appeared set to walk away with the title.

But some doubts must have crept into his mind of late and Sunday’s race will be a real test of his character.

Button has admitted that he needs to be more aggressive in his approach.

This is no time for faint hearts.

Encouragingly, Button says that the challenging Spa circuit is one of his favourites.

Aside from the testing conditions, he described it as a “very beautiful circuit with the forest setting”.

Hang on, Jenson, there will be no time for sight-seeing. It’s not a typical Sunday afternoon drive, you know.

Let’s just hope that Button rises to the challenge and leaves the competition trailing in his wake.

Otherwise, it could make for a very tense finish to the campaign for Button and his Brawn GP colleagues.

Nick Johnson, Red U.K. Editorial Staff