"Your More Precious Than Gold"

• 20Oct 09

  Level 30 & Congratulations To Button

  I have finally hit the big Level 30.

  Level 30 - Wicked Sick - The award earned in Unreal Tournament 2004 for 30 consecutive frags without a death.

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  I would also like to say a massive congratulations to Jenson Button and all his loyal fans, I'm sure most of you know but for those who don't Jenson Button is a British Formula 1 driver who finally claimed the 2009 World Championship and helped win Brawn GP the Constructors crown also last weekend and well this is his story ...

  Jenson Alexander Lyons Button was born in the town of Frome in Somerset on 19 January 1980. Young Jenson first kickstarted his racing career at the age of eight, after his father, former Rallycross driver John Button brought him his first kart. He won all 34 races of the 1991 British Cadet Kart Championship, along with the title. Further successes followed, including three triumphs in the British Open Kart Championship. In 1997, he became the youngest driver ever to win the European Super A Championship, and won the Aryton Senna Memorial Cup as well, precipitating a move into car racing.

  Aged 18, Button contested the British Formula Ford Championship with Haywood Racing and won the title, with nine race wins. He also triumphed in the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch, ahead of future Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon. At the end of 1998, he won the annual McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award. His prize included a test in a McLaren Formula One car, which he received at the end of the following year.

  Button entered Formula Three in 1999, with the Promatecme team. He won three times - at Thruxton, Pembrey and Silverstone - and finished the season as top rookie driver. He was third overall in the championship, behind Marc Hynes and Luciano Burti, and finished fifth and second respectively in the Marlboro Masters and Macau Grand Prix (0.035s behind winner Darren Manning in the latter).

  He first drove in Formula One in the 2000 season, with the Williams team, switching in 2001 to Benetton, which in 2002 became Renault F1. After two years with the Enstone-based squad, he moved to BAR in 2003. They were subsequently renamed Honda for the 2006 season, during which Button won his first Grand Prix in Hungary, on 6 August 2006, after 113 races.

  Following the withdrawal of Honda from the sport in December 2008, he was left without a drive for the 2009 season, until Ross Brawn led a management buyout of the team in February 2009, and Button suddenly found himself in a highly competitive, Mercedes-engined car. He went on to win six of the first seven races of the 2009 season, equalling a record achieved by only two other drivers: Michael Schumacher and Jim Clark. At the Brazilian Grand Prix, he amassed enough points over his rivals to secure the 2009 World Drivers' Championship, while also helping Brawn GP to secure the World Constructors' Championship in its maiden season.

  
  

  

  
  

  • Posted Oct 20, 2009 1:41 pm GMT
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• 27Aug 09

  Level 29 and 20,000 Gamerscore

  I promised you a slightly better blog and well here it is, still isn't particuly interesting but oh well. Reached level 29 now which I'm rather proud of, I believe I'm starting to get recognised quite a bit now in different forums, feels good to noticed

  Level 29 - Radiant Silvergun - An excellent top-down shooter for the Sega Saturn by Treasure.

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  I also hit 20,000 gamerscore last night, which I'm also rather happy about. All thanks to my recent investment in Dead Rising, and if none of you own this yet, I strongly recommend it, I never thought that slashing thousands of zombies with a whole collection of comepletly random items could be so much fun. The following achievement took me over the 20k milestone ...

  Zombie Road - 20g

  

  Walk over 33 feet (10 meters) on the backs of zombies using the Zombie Ride.

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  One more thing before I go, Those on the UK board may know that I am attempting to create a regular football thread each weekend, and well to be honest the last one was a little dissapointing. Please try and keep it alive or I may aswell just leave them, I am just trying to bring some life back to the forum, as in my opinion it has a died a little recently.

  Gamespotters, If you have been, thanks for reading ... Ciao

  
  

  

  • Posted Aug 27, 2009 7:43 am GMT
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• 13Jul 09

  Level 28 - Bionic Commando

  Got myself a little streak going right now haven't had a moderation since March 5th ... I really don't have anything else to say to be honest, been fairly boring. I was going to try and upload some pictures from the British Grand Prix, but it won't let me , Oh well, will have a decent blog soonish

  Bionic Commando - cl@ssic NES game in which you played as a bionic commando who could not jump, but had a nifty extending bionic arm that let you swing from stuff. Truly kick-ass.

  • Posted Jul 13, 2009 10:04 am GMT
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