Jenson Button has defended his decision to stay on at Honda for another season in 2008.
Ten races into the Japanese team’s disastrous 2007 campaign, and with nearly five years at Brackley netting the Briton only one win, 27-year-old Button suggested to The Guardian newspaper that Honda is his best option.
“That’s easier said than done,” Button smilingly replied when asked why he doesn’t simply leave the struggling team.
“Where precisely would I find another drive?”
The British press, totally occupied with Lewis Hamilton’s stellar first half to 2007 so far, turned its attention to Button on Friday on the eve of the anniversary of his maiden grand prix win here.
But in Hungary a year on, he confessed that another win on a slippery track is not even on his radar at present, particularly with weather forecasts predicting that nearby rain will miss the Hungaroring on Sunday.
“Even getting on the podium would feel like a win,” he admitted, after taking his RA107 to a lowly sixteenth place in afternoon practice.
Button added: “Even a point would be fantastic.”
He insists, however, that although buried in the midfield, he is actually driving better than ever.
Button said the first few laps before spinning off at the Nurburgring two weeks ago were “the best I’ve ever done”.
“It reminded me why I love this sport so much, why I am here,” he told reporters in Budapest.
