Weeks after becoming world champion with Brawn, Jenson Button has completed a deal to join McLaren for 2009. He's certainly not the first title winner to immediately head elsewhere, but as our gallery shows, such moves have rarely paid off in the past... - Action Shots - Photographs - F1 | ITV Sport

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1 Sebastian Vettel
2 Mark Webber
3 Jenson Button
4 Rubens Barrichello
5 Nick Heidfeld
6 Kamui Kobayashi
7 Jarno Trulli
8 Sebastien Buemi

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1 Jenson Button
2 Sebastian Vettel
3 Rubens Barrichello
4 Mark Webber
5 Lewis Hamilton
6 Kimi Raikkonen
7 Nico Rosberg
8 Jarno Trulli

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Weeks after becoming world champion with Brawn, Jenson Button has completed a deal to join McLaren for 2009. He's certainly not the first title winner to immediately head elsewhere, but as our gallery shows, such moves have rarely paid off in the past...

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