Jenson Button feels at home and sees his future at McLaren-Mercedes - Formula 1
Jenson Button has stated that after a long and exhausting run of 11 Formula 1 seasons with different teams, McLaren-Mercedes feels like home. Expressing his feelings about the team he said that he has a few years left of driving and no team other than McLaren
looks more welcoming.
Jenson Button is on a three year multi-million dollar deal with McLaren which he signed in 2010. Button is stepping into his 12th season and has a long history in Formula 1 under Williams, Benetton, BAR, Renault, Honda and Brawn GP colours. In
2009 he won the world championship driving for Brawn GP.
In McLaren, he is driving alongside another world champion, Lewis Hamilton, and is not thinking of leaving the team. Button said, “I can't imagine going somewhere else in Formula One after McLaren. When I was younger, at the start of my years in Formula
One, I never thought I'd drive for McLaren.” He further added that he never had been more welcomed and more appreciated by any other team than McLaren.
Button explained that the team talks when there is something wrong with the car or the strategy of the sport and never points fingers. Buttons stated, “They really tell you what is happening. They don't keep you in the dark. They really involve you in everything
they do.” With Hamilton also assuring the McLaren team of his presence for a long time, McLaren are looking like they are going to have some great seasons ahead.
Button, along with Hamilton, has not been that big a fan of the 2011 car, MP4-26, used in the pre-season tests. After certain modifications were done to the car, both drivers look really content with it as it completed its first task of breaking Red Bull’s
monopoly in the Australian Grand Prix.
There has been some speculation that McLaren have been sandbagging the testing and their real pace was shown in the qualifiers. They have done this in recent years, especially with the introduction of the F-duct. Nevertheless, Lewis Hamilton will start the
Sunday’s Grand Prix in second place and Jenson Button will start in fourth place.
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