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Button or Hamilton – who’s the better driver? With this year’s Formula 1 Championship likely to be the most exciting for years, elephant.co.uk decided to pit the two British greats head-to-head. Rivalry between Button and Hamilton will be at its height this season so car insurance specialist elephant.co.uk looked at data from over 1.7 million policies to see if the stats reveal whether people called Button or Hamilton are better drivers. The results are in and when it comes to crashing it’s bad news for Button. Drivers on elephant’s books called Button are more likely than Hamiltons to cause an accident. And, it looks like Hamilton could be faster around the track than Button too. According to the research, Hamiltons are more likely to be caught speeding than Buttons. This is definitely not such a good thing on UK roads but it is what you’d look for in a Formula 1 champion. But it’s not green lights all the way for Hamilton. When it comes to the start of a race, it seems Hamilton could run the risk of a false start. His namesakes have more convictions for running traffic lights than Buttons. elephant.co.uk managing director, Brian Martin, said, "With the first Formula 1 race kicking off in Bahrain next month, we thought we’d have a bit of fun and see if our data could give us any clues to who will take the title. "If our findings are anything to go by and the driving records of motorists on our books hold any clues, my money would be on Hamilton. Although he runs the risk of a false start, he’s less likely to crash than Button and should be quite a bit faster around the track." However, let’s not forget Schumacher. According to elephant’s figures, the comeback king could be a good bet. People sharing his surname beat both Hamilton and Button for speeding. On top of this, none of the Schumachers elephant insures have made a claim and none have been caught jumping the lights. However, that could be because elephant doesn’t have hundreds of Schumachers on its books! Issue date: 09/03/2010
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