There was a time a few years ago when Michael Schumacher and Ferrari kept on winning everything in Formula One, and it got boring. This year, we’ve seen a complete up-ending of the old order with teams such as Ferrari and McLaren struggling just to get to the finish sometimes, let alone score points. While at the top of the pile, basking in the glory, we’ve got names such as Brawn and Red Bull. Well, mainly Brawn in fact.

Remember these days? I don't. I was asleep

We’ve had five Grands Prix so far this season and four of them have been won by Brawn’s Jenson Button, while Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull has taken a single victory. In Spain last weekend, Brawn achieved its second one-two of the year, with Rubens Barrichello coming in second.

We’ve all applauded this new order. It’s been great to see a different name at the top of the points table, particularly if you’re a Button fan. After all, the poor chap spent enough years driving a less than impressive car and it’s time he had the chance to really display his talents. But how long will it be before we start thinking: “Oh no, not Button again…”

Button, button and button!

And what is particularly worrying for the other teams is that Button and Brawn have been successful in different conditions and on different types of track. They’ve won in the wet, in the dry and, in Spain, using hard tyres which didn’t suit Button’s normal smooth driving style. However, he adapted to a more aggressive approach and won yet again.

If the other teams are going to get a look in this year, they’d better hurry up. Red Bull has been closest, Vettel having scored a single victory in China and he could have done better in Spain had he not been held up behind Felipe Massa’s Ferrari for most of the race. Ferrari is using the new KERS device, which gives the drivers an extra boost of power each lap, whereas Red Bull isn’t at the moment, and it was this that allowed the Ferrari to stay ahead. Until, that is, the team told Massa to slow as he was using too much fuel and wouldn’t get to the end of the race… The least said about Ferrari at the moment the better.

This sums up Ferrari's season to a tree

Toyota and Williams have both shown early season pace but have been unable to translate that into hard race results. If they don’t do so soon, they will find that the rest of the field is catching them up with new developments while Brawn is leaving them even further behind.

The only thing Brawn doesn’t have to smile about at the moment is the possibility of some disquiet within the team from Barrichello. The Brazilian was unhappy that his team-mate Button was switched to a different strategy during the Spanish Grand Prix, stopping twice for tyres and fuel as opposed to Barrichello’s three-stop strategy, which the team had initially thought the quicker of the two options. Rubens has stated in no uncertain terms that if he thinks Button is being favoured in any way, he will hang up his helmet immediately and walk away from Formula One.

Team orders? I'm off...

You can see his point. The poor guy spent years having to obey team orders at Ferrari when he was number two to Michael Schumacher. He doesn’t want to have to defer to a team-mate again. So let’s hope he does get a chance to stand on the top step of the podium. Apart from anything else, we don’t want the season becoming boring again, do we?

Button won again.......zzzzzz