towelie {l Wrote}:
tbh I was a HONDA fan long before becoming a Button fan, became a BRAWN fan after HONDA gave up formula1
btw Button used to drive for RENAULT around 2000 which is a french team
Actually......... only the money and engines are French.
Renault took over the Benetton team, who were in fact a re-branded Toleman Team. Formed in 1980 in Whitney, Oxfordshire, England they were the team that gave Ayrton Senna his debut in 1984.
The Renault F1 team is now based in Enstone, also in Oxfordshire, where the chassis is designed and built, with the engines coming from the factory in France. Most of the staff date back to the Toleman days.