With Jenson Button winning his second race then his arch-rival and nemesis (me), only three days his senior has to reluctantly retire a joke.

I first used it in my 2006 Edinburgh show “Pulp Boy” when talking about my jealousy of Jenson Button, being three days younger than me but being an F1 driver (my childhood dream) and being pretty successful (at the time). I was originally just slagging him off saying he hadn’t won any races.

Then in that very month of August when I was in Edinburgh he went and bloody won the hungarian grand prix.

the joke was born.

Last year I got to do some funny bits on the BBC Radio 5live coverage of the races - and for my debut I used the following joke:

Hello, my name is Terry Saunders. I’m a standup comedian, I’m three days older than Jenson Button and have won one less race than him.

I went on to use a similar joke in my Radio 4 comedy thing “Dad Designs” and have used it many times in gigs.

But now button has gone and ruined my life again. Yes I could just change it to two races instead of one. But it’s not as funny. And by the looks of it, by midseason I’ll have to say “significantly less races than him”.

So, as BrawnGP announce a lot of job cuts thanks to the credit crunch, I am hereby announcing that thanks to the BrawnGP team’s success I am having to make this joke redundant.

A minutes silence would be nice (after all, that’s what I got from audiences sometimes when telling it - Boom!)

Button only went and bloody won the season opener, thereby making most of the pisstaking that this website/podcast has ever done utterly defunct, nay even foolish. Not that that will stop us. Read on for full race report and results

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Crikey. Jenson Button is on Pole for the Australian Grand Prix, in a 1-2 for the resurrected Honda team in what would be unbelievable only weeks ago is still barely believable now.

Tearing Richard Branson’s newly paid for hymen right off and magically playing swapsies Button had kept the back end of the grid warm for Hamilton who barely made it out of Q1.

The Williams did well, but not blisteringly so…

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Williams? Will they?

They’ve won the championship many-a-time, but the last few years have been a touch old slog for Sir Frank and his team.

Anyone over nine years old with a love of formula one wants them to do well, and every season one can’t help begin hoping that they’re going to be back.

And after topping all three practice sessions one can’t help but wonder, will they?

Showboating seems more and more unlikely as the form book is getting properly torn up.

Only one of the top 6 wasn’t one of the iffy-diffuser teams and McLaren carried on looking very ordinary in 11th and 12th. BMW-Sauber are still underwhelming

There is one bit of consistency to relax us older hearts… Red Bull are still disappointing.

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guardian.co.uk > Lewis Hamilton unwittingly reveals McLaren F1 car trouble on team radio

Without meaning to Lewis Hamilton has inadvertantly let slip quite how fucked McLaren are by forgetting that we’re hearing a lot more radio that the “I want to thank the team” post-win schmaltz saying…

The car’s bottoming out, I can barely see the marker boards

And sure enough the world found out (as if it didn’t know) that as part of the cost-cutting initiaves the McLaren team stopped buying sandbags about a year ago.

Interestingly as one British F1 superstar gets ready for his year in obscurity another prepares to be the main focus of the TV coverage again.

Him and Jenson is starting to feel a little like Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow. When Take That split Barlow was a laughing stock as Robbie went on to have such meaningful hits as Rock DJ and that other one.

But the last laugh was on the Robster as Take That reformed and did an M&S advert as Williams langusihed like his F1 team namesake.

So now maybe its time for Lewis to head down the other end of the grid and take drugs with Oasis for a season or two.