Formula One: Reining F1 Champion, Button Aims for World Championship again
As the formula one season reaches its business end, the run for the top driver for the championship heats up.
One contender for the title in the ongoing season is the reining Champion Jenson Button, who aims to cover some of the lost ground at one of his most favourite race venues at the start of next month.
The Brit has had a mixed season thus far and is pinning his hopes of making a grand return to the reckoning for the title with a strong finish at the Hungaroring, which would be the venue for Sunday's Hungary Grand Prix.
Button has a good record at the venue, where he recorded his first ever win in a race four years ago.
The Budapest circuit was what changed it all for the Brit in 2006, and the lanky driver hopes that he would taste further success when he takes part in the race this weekend.
Button is also pinning hopes on his teammate Lewis Hamilton, to help his team McLaren improve its standing in the constructors championship by posting a win in Hungary.
The German grand prix had its share of controversy, as the Ferrari team ordered Felipe Massa to slow down and hand over the lead to Fernando Alonso.
The British duo of McLaren finished fourth and fifth respectively, behind the Ferrari pair and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel.
While on the hand, the Ferrari team struggles to cast aside the rivalries with-in their ranks, the other leading teams like Red Bulls' Vettel and Mark Webber, Hamilton and Button seem to work closely as a team.
Button hopes that the team McLaren can have an edge over their nearest rivals.
"The advantage of Lewis and me working well together is that we share every bit of information, we work together very well, so I think it moves the team forward and I think it's important to have two drivers’ views on different setup changes. Plus the team does not have to think about keeping us apart and we can focus on improving, as a team, the car for every race we go to."
The quartet of Alonso, Button, Hamilton and Vettel have all won two races each this season, but the man with most race wins this year is Australian Mark Webber, who has taken the chequered flag three times.
For Button, however his focus remains on the race in Budapest, the site of the first major win of his illustrious career and he hopes that he would be able to pull of an important win to resurrect his chances in the title race in the ongoing season.
Button said that the German Grand Prix’s results were reasonable for the team. He was a little bit unlucky in turn one and had to hit the brakes to try to miss Sebastian, who was going slow, so he lost a few places but got back up to fifth, so it wasn’t a bad result.
"But we didn't have the pace of the Red Bulls and the Ferraris so, a little bit disappointed with that, but I know now that we are moving forward for this race here in Budapest, and we will have a better performance," he said.
McLaren's has an enviable record at the venue in Budapest, besides Button’s win the other team member Hamilton has twice won there.
Overall, the team has won the last three events there and a total of six out of the last 11 races.
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