My name is Hannah
And this is my Jenson Button BlueWater Page.
Just TWO day's after winning the 2009 World Drivers Championship in Brazil, Jenson hopped on a plane and appeared at Bluewater in Kent..Of Course.. I was there!
THIS SITE STARTED ON THE 25TH OCTOBER 2009
Jenson Button goes to Bluewater 20th October 2009
During Free Practice 2 on saturday, it was mentioned that Jenson was appearing at Bluewater shopping centre on Tuesday... WHAT?
No fair!, I already have that day booked out meeting some of my dads friends parents that we meet up with every year or two.. damit!
It was happening right on the doorstep of Katie and Lawerance in Kent, plans were starting to be made.. do'h looks like i'll have to sit it out.
Saturday comes, and a bad qualifying position means Jenson's down in a low P.14 on the grid for Sundays race in Brazil.. we're hoping he can wrap up his leading season and get the World Drivers Championship.. and his team Brawn wrap up the Constructors championship..
Sunday comes.. Race Day.. and Jenson has the drive of his life.. overtaking several cars on track.. Jenson needs to finish 5th or better.. the championship is between him and his team mate Rubens Barrichello.. who then got overtaken by the current British F1 world champion -Lewis Hamilton, who managed to by accident put his front nose cone end wing plate into Rubens right back tyre.. who shortly later complains of vibrations coming from his rear tyre.. a minute later the team comes on saying he has a puncture and needs to pit...
Rubens ends up rejoining the grid in 8th.
Massa waves the chequared flag.. in 1st Place Mark Webber... and in 5th Place.. JENSON BUTTON.. and in 8th Place.. Rubens Barrichello -WOOHOO.. as tears of joy fall from my eyes...
Wow and so he will appear at Bluewater as a world champion... actually in his press confrence he tells the media his plane has a fault O_O and his team mate is going to lend him his private jet..
We also get a call from my dads friend who we're due to meet Tuesday.. bad weather on the way.. so D-day tomorrow evening...
Monday afternoon comes and after several weather checks, its gonna be very wet and windy to go to Bath... so we call to cancel Tuesdays meet up... which mean.. I CAN GO TO BLUEWATER
So a quick phone call to my friends.. and it's decided that I hop on a train NOW, to London... and Katie and Lowrance with Merrick will pick us up in the morning...
So I quickly shove everything into a carrierbag.. have some food and get the train.. I finally meet up with Alison at 8:30pm
Tuesday 20th October 2009
We awake at 6am, and get ourselves ready.. though I'm trying to eat some food, but feeling a little sick, maybe its just the stress of of emotions the past few days... we walk to the local Tesco by Alison..
Lawerance arrives with Katie and Merrick at 8am, we sling our bags in the boot, and myself and Alison jump in the back..
The journey doesn't take long, and were there by 9am... so its into Mcdonalds for Merrick, Katie and Lawerance's breakfast.. Alison grabs a tea, and I have a coffee.. sitting behind us is a bloke with a camera.. humm he must be a Paparatizzi for Jensons appearance.. we then decided to have a look round to see where everything is happening, as we do we spot a few photographers.. lets follow them! -we find out where the Q&A inside Bluewater is, and then further along the mall we find his race car undercover... and outside alot of press people.. so we head out there..
We walk past ANOTHER of Jenson's F1 cars and to see what the long queue was about.. it was the press signing in and getting there passes.. but THIS is the place to be.. there only a handful of other Jenson fans..
We find text our friend that we're here, our location, and get a text back saying he'll be here at 11am..
Once all the press have been signed in, the table is moved away.. we await for the security to say we can go through, and now the queue of fans really snake round O_O we are told to walk.. we've already discussed where to head for!... we had got our spot..
there is a big tent in front of us where the media are setting up.. ready for Jenson to do his interview I guess, then to the right are TWO motorhome buses... the black on is virgin speed50, and next to that is Jensons.. he must be here then... and to our left are two mercades cars one's black, the other in speedweek50 red colour with lots of sponsors..
Then Jenson comes out of the Speedweek50 motorhome.. waves to the fans walks up a bit further to press, turns round and then goes back to the speedweek50 motorhome, before coming out and going into his own one.. and appears out on the roof.. to do a photoshoot.. he waves to us all, and even sticks his tongue out! His PA Jules is also on the roof with a camcorder.. obviously filming a video for his website :)
She finishes filming and comes down goes into the speedweek50 motorhome before coming out and heading in our direction, she sees us and comes to chat and give us a kiss.. after a little chat she says Jenson will come this way and sign autographs :) then she has to go off and deal with other things...
Once Jenson has finished his photoshoot on top of his motorhome, he heads to the media tent to do some Q&A.. there a gap where there is no media... from where we are standing we can just about see Jenson :) -he talks about being a world driver champion, Honda's fall, and BrawnGP, and also the Brazilian GP and his team mate Rubens who lent him his private jet after there one had a fault, which he used to get here...of course a pap decided to get in our view... grrr.. eventually he moves and then the Q&A ends... and heads back into the speedweek50 motorhome... obviously doing some more interviews...
The barrier are now being reorganised... obviously Jenson will do something with the red or black car.. but they were gonna put more barriers in front of us for the media to go behind.. then how would this work Jenson being close to his fans? So Alison calls over the Bluewater General manager who we'd just seen have photos done with blonde women in red catsuits (they looked hidious) and he told us its not upto him... but obviously someone overheard Alison..
they moved the row of barrier.. a cars width in front of us for the media to stand behind! As the media all gathered.
We were asked for some media camera to cheer as there camera's panned the crowd... we were interview for who's come the furthest, I said Watford, via London to here, Kent with these guys -point to my mates... they interview Lawerance who had brought along his ½ replica Jenson Button 2009 helmet to get signed for his fiance Katie as a birthday present.. though she knew about it!
I decided to get out my T-shirt I had designed for Silverstone.. which is of the St. Georges Cross through the middle says "Jenson Button All The Way, and in 3 of the 4 squares is the names of the races with the years of Grand Prix's i've attended and the 4 square has Hannah/Heczone, my name and screen name I use on the Jenson Button forum...
Then Jenson comes out of the speedweek50 motorhome and walks behind all the media stuff, and to the red speedweek50 car.. pauses, does a few photos and then starts the fan signing down the other end! The security is having to hold up the barriers..
The cameras are rolling, the fans screaming and crushing us people at the front of the barriers some more, and Jenson is getting closer...
amongst the arms of all the fans, i'm trying to taking photos as Jenson nears... and it works being short too!
Then he's there.. signing Lawrences helmet... a few more signatures above him, then he gets to me.. 'hiya how are you?' smiling, he's bending down signing my t-shirt that I have gripped in my hands over the barrier.. trying to take photos, and being crushed by the fans behind me with their arms over my head... he then gives Alison her kiss.. and signs more autographs... and abit further up the line Jenson signs Merrick's F1 Racing magazine, and Katies Jenson cap.. then he goes into the speekweek50 motorhome... for more interviews until its his lunchtime...
Whilst Lawrances gets interview over his newly ½ scaled JB replica helmet, which is now PRICELESS!, and Alison gets asked about her kiss from Jenson, and of course she will wash her face! -it's not the first kiss she's had from Jenson you know!!
We decide that's gonna be our lot.. and head over to the Brawn truck to do some photos against the side of it with the British flag Button and number 22, we started to muck about, and then the woman from ITV wanted to film us.. so standing against it we are holding our hand up going Number 1.. and singing "We are The Champions" just like Jenson did on Sunday in his car to his team.. we asked the lady to take some group shots of us on Alison's camera, which she did, before she dived off to do some more filming elsewhere..
We head off inside the bluewater shopping complex, to go to the loo's, and then we get to as far as Jenson's race car, Lawrence trys to get a few snaps of us.. nope its too dark in here for the camera to get a photo.. I bumped up my ISO up quite high, on my camera as I can as its got a bigger sensor.. get some shots.. and then another jurno, comes up and interviews us from 'The Kent Magazine'.. we talk about Jenson and then proceed to have a photo for the magazine with our signed stuff! :)
After that we decided to see what else was happening.. we went over to the other Q&A area.. looking from above the area, it already was busy with fans awaiting that 30 mins session... and a bloke on the microphone said it will be another 2 hours until that kicked off, as he would be doing the driving round the carpark bit first.. we head to the carpark, it was aready busy with fans.. so we decided to call it a day.
We had a browse round the shops.. when I recieve a text message...My brother had snapped us myself and Lawerance on his phone of us on the lunchtime news...WOOHOOO!!
We then headed to the food court, where Merrick, Lawrance and Katie got some KFC, myself and Alison had some of there chips, and ate some of my chocolate bars, I also drank my bottle of Frijj 'cookie dough'.. I didn't feel hungry at all really..
Buzzing from the days experiance we all headed back to the car, and departed back to London, before saying bye to the others as they headed back to Kent!,
Once inside Alison's flat, on went the TV, as it was 5:30pm -30mins until the 6pm news which we'll be on on ITV, so had some tea/coffee's and got ready to watch the new headlines.. BBC had nothing.. but ITV were showing it.. WOOHOO.. I sat there with my G9 camera programmed on the record button... and when the feature came onto ITV.. I recorded the tv showing it, and you can hear myself and Alison in the background cheering!, WOW they showed Alison getting her kiss from Jenson, Lawrence having his helmet signed...me having my t-shirt signed, and all of us beside the BrawnGP truck.. GO USSSS! Woo
After checking out lots of photography sites like Sutton, and gpupdate.net and seeing photos of ourselves from the day, we had a look through our photos, I uploaded a few onto my facebook and flickr pages, before heading on a train back home..
I got home at 9:30pm, to a cup of coffee, and that my brother had some news for me... theres MORE Jenson Button still on ITV's London Tonight show at 10pm.. also my photo hard drive was failing, but luckily linux gave him a warning and he could back it all up to my spare backup hard drive! -phew!