Jenson Button vs Takuma Sato, 2004
Teammates at BAR — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 2004 season, Jenson Button and Takuma Sato competed as teammates at BAR over 18 races. Button outqualified Sato 10 times and finished ahead of him in 10 of the 11 races they both classified. Button scored 85 championship points and achieved 10 podium finishes, while Sato earned 34 points and had 1 podium finish.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.10–8Qualifyingof 18 compared
10–1Race finishesof 11 compared
Qualifying is compared on the grid they actually started from. A race counts only where both were classified — one of them retiring leaves nothing to compare, so it is not scored to the other.
2004 season
1818
8534
00
101
P2P3
5.58.2
3.67.5
35