Monday 24th January 2000

Twenty-year-old Jenson Button became the youngest F1 driver, when he signed a five-year deal with BMW. “I am still on cloud nine,” Button said when wheeled out to face the media. “The last 45 minutes have been amazing; difficult to explain because I’ve never experienced anything like this before.” Moss was fulsome in his praise. `It’s a fantastic achievement and I wish him all the best,’ he said. `I’m obviously sorry to have been pushed out of the record books as the youngest British F1 driver, but what the hell. We’ll have to start calling him `The Boy’, as they referred to me when I was new to it.”