The paucity of supply was a result of a fierce dispute over the land on which Tata was building a factory to produce the Nano - a row regarded as symbolic of the social tensions India faces as it strives to emulate the manufacturing might of China.

Farmers in the state of West Bengal alleged that the inflatable Nano site had been stolen from them and mounted violent demonstrations that forced the company to abandon the partly built plant at a cost of as much as $350 million. Because of the disruption, the Nano was launched seven months behind schedule.

The delay in ramping up output of the Nano inflatable bouncer has left the company vulnerable to competition from other ultra-cheap runabouts under development.

Rival projects include a joint venture between Renault-Nissan and Bajaj, the Indian two-wheeler manufacturer, which said during the summer that they were on track to produce a Nano-type super-compact car inflatable castles by 2011

It is a record to relish: the first back-to-back British winners of a Formula One world championship in 40 years. Not since the heyday of the Sixties - when Formula One was dominated by Jim Clark, Graham Hill, John Surtees and Sir Jackie Stewart - has the nation enjoyed two winning drivers.

But Jenson Button completed the glorious double in Brazil to win his championship a year after Lewis Hamilton’s triumph at the same race. But that has sparked the debate: who is the best driver - Hamilton or Button?

Compare and contrast: one aggressive, daring and a winner from almost the start of his Formula One career; the other, smooth, laconic but pearl jewelry determined to win through after a decade of under-achievement.

They simply could not be more different, the youngster from Stevenage in Hertfordshire and the ten-season veteran from Frome in Somerset.
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Hamilton’s ascent to Formula One was result of the pearl necklace most intensive grooming programme ever seen in the sport. Adopted as a 13-year-old by Ron Dennis, the former team principal at McLaren, Hamilton never had to worry about financing the most important years of his career while McLaren took care of every physical and mental need. 

The result was a driver who had no qualms about entering the highest echelons of motor racing. And he was lucky. McLaren have suffered many poor years but Hamilton breezed into a winning car on day one and made the most of it.

But the excitement he brings to the track comes with some fatal flaws. Remember how he drove into the distance in his first season and pearl jewelry should have taken the championship with ease, only to collapse when the crucial moments came. It was almost the same story in his title year of 2008 when Felipe Massa won more races and did everything he could to be champion only to be thwarted at the last race by a Toyota driver struggling with his tyres, which allowed Hamilton to slip through in dying seconds of the race to become champion. Not so much a victory drive as a stagger over the line.

There has been much furore along the way, not least the pearl jewelry wholesale “Liegate” episode at the start of the season, which tarnished Hamilton’s Mr Clean image. That was the closest Hamilton came to cracking because this is a young man so confident in his own ability that he is never deflected by criticism - almost to the point of irritating people.

In many ways, 2009 was the season Hamilton came of age, putting up a series of terrific performances in an unwieldy wholesale pearl jewelry McLaren. He is still young and has much to learn - but Hamilton will be a star for another decade at least.

Somerset is a county hardly known for its motor racing talent but the village of Upper Vobster produced Jenson Button. His race through the ranks was less gilded than Hamilton, financed largely by John, his father, and some willing sponsors, but he was no less successful. In fact, he was so good, Formula One teams were swarming around him as a teenager until Sir Frank Williams threw him onto the grid at the freshwater pearl age of just 19. It was sink or swim and Button stayed afloat with aplomb in his first season.

But he had Sir Frank and Patrick Head, the wise owls of Formula One, to rely on at Williams. When he was moved on to Benetton and a rotten car, he floundered hopelessly. The money was pouring into his personal bank account, but he was deeply unhappy, reflected in his performances on the track.

It was not until David Richards put an arm around Button and took him to BAR Honda that he prospered again. Button is not like Hamilton; he needs to be loved and his popularity in the paddock is a reflection of the time he takes with everyone he meets. His mechanics and engineers love him and workers at the Brawn GP factory in Brackley, Northamptonshire, adore him. Nobody has a bad word about Button

But he has rarely had a machine capable of freshwater pearl jewelry taking him to the chequered flag first. The one demonstration of his ability was that first grand prix victory in Hungary in 2006 where Button came from the back of the grid in the rain - a nerveless performance of great calm and assurance when everyone else was struggling with the conditions.

It is little wonder that he has looked nervous at the end pearl jewelry wholesale of this season with so much at stake. After a decade in the sport and so many disappointments, he was desperate to hang on for the title. Now let us see if a renewed Button will be ready to challenge for the championship again next season. 

They blew £100 million this year and missed out on the reward for their generosity.

We will never know what the executives in charge at Honda really thought when Jenson Button crossed the line in Brazil on Sunday night to become Formula One world champion, but the question on millions of lips must be: was pearl jewelry Honda’s decision to pull out of Formula One the biggest blooper in business ever?

Honda probably spent close to £1 billion over nine seasons trying to win the World Championship and just when they had their best chance, they walked away. Ross Brawn told them the prospects for 2009 were good, and Jenson Button was fired up after he saw his car, but they panicked as the global recession took hold and quit when they could have been ahead.

If only they had waited. Margaux Matrix, a media monitoring company, estimates that Honda missed out on publicity worth about £200 million pearl jewelry wholesale during the first 15 races of the season — a figure that would rise with the worldwide exposure given to Button’s final triumph in Brazil.
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Brawn and Nick Fry, his chief executive, were given a chance to succeed after Honda weighed up the costs of closing down the wholesale pearl jewelry team and its headquarters at Brackley, in Northamptonshire. To save face, Honda left this year’s £100 million budget in place to give Brawn and Fry a cushion as they scoured the world for sponsors — then Honda left the building for good.

Perhaps the chaps at Honda need some marketing advice from the master, Sir Richard Branson, who effectively hijacked the season with a calculated gamble.

He stuck his Virgin brand on the Brawn GP cars at the start of the season when nothing was expected of the team. He got an immediate payback for his first £250,000 at the Australian Grand Prix when Button won. The payments have risen since, although to nowhere near the £20 million-a-season level usually demanded by teams.

Margaux Matrix calculates that Virgin has enjoyed exposure worth about £37 million as a result. With Brawn GP now out of their league, Virgin plan to sponsor Manor Grand Prix, a new team, in 2010.