Why Jenson Button is still not finished with motorsport
JEP
Thanks to the troubles of the McLaren-Honda partnership, Jenson Button’s Formula 1 career did not finish as well as it should have, although he did perform well alongside Fernando Alonso. Fortunately, Button’s enthusiasm for motorsport has not dimmed and he has taken on a number of new challenges since 2017.
As he tells James Newbold in our exclusive interview on page 18, Button still wants to push himself and learn. That helps to explain why, as a driver, he has taken on events as diverse as the Le Mans 24 Hours and Baja rally, and has moved into GT team management. He even combined the two at Silverstone’s British GT finale last weekend.
Button has never been afraid to put himself in a position where he could fail. Few expected him to be so strong alongside Lewis Hamilton at McLaren, and he took his one and only world title chance in 2009.
Our 1998 young driver Award winner probably won’t ever get the credit he deserves, but it’s great that he is still out there competing.
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PIT & PADDOCK 4 LMP1 going out with a whimper 6 Iannone ban extended to four years 8 The 11-way world title decider 10 Huff to take on locals in Macau 11 Turkish GP preview 13 Opinion: Alex Kalinauckas 15 Opinion: Lewis Duncan 17 Feedback: your letters
INSIGHT 18 Jenson Button: life a er F1 26 Five-way showdown for BTCC title 34 Extreme E test
RACE CENTRE 38 World of Sport: DTM; NASCAR Cup; Super GT; MotoGP
CLUB AUTOSPORT 52 Elite Motorsport to join British F3 54 Fundraising push for injured FFord racer 56 Berkeley sportscars to make return 57 Opinion: Stephen Lickorish 58 National reports: Silverstone 62 Remembering Thundersaloons
FINISHING STRAIGHT 68 What’s on this week 71 Have-a-go hero: Adam Carroll 72 From the archive: 1973 Monaco GP 74 Autosport 70: success for Volvo
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