{"id":2403,"date":"2010-02-12T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2010-02-12T07:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:14:05","slug":"button-brawn-nominated-for-laureus-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/button-brawn-nominated-for-laureus-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Button, Brawn, nominated for Laureus awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jenson Button, and the former Brawn (now Mercedes GP) team, have been nominated for prestigious Laureus World Sports awards.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>30-year-old Button, who having previously won just a single grand prix, is nominated in the Breakthrough of the Year category after winning the 2009 drivers&#8217; championship.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He is up against fellow Britons Mark Cavendish (cycling) and Tom Daley (diving), as well as Juan Martin del Potro (tennis), golfer Ji Yai Shin, and Germany&#8217;s VFL Wolfsburg football team.<\/p>\n<p>Brackley based Brawn, formed in the wake of a management buyout after Honda&#8217;s withdrawal from F1, is nominated for the Team of the Year prize.<\/p>\n<p>Also nominated are the football teams FC Barcelona and Germany&#8217;s female team, the LA Lakers, New York Yankees and South Africa&#8217;s rugby team.<\/p>\n<p>No F1 names are nominated for the main World Sportsman of the Year prize, but motor racing is represented by Valentino Rossi.<\/p>\n<p>The nominations, announced by sportsmen including Laureus member Mika Hakkinen this week, follow a ballot involving the world&#8217;s media.<\/p>\n<p>The winners, to be named during a ceremony in Abu Dhabi next month, will be selected by a jury of 46 of the world&#8217;s greatest ever sports men and women.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button, and the former Brawn (now Mercedes GP) team, have been nominated for prestigious Laureus World Sports awards. \u00a0 30-year-old Button, who having previously won just a single grand prix, is nominated in the Breakthrough of the Year category after winning the 2009 drivers&#8217; championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,705,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}