Reuters - Tue, 17 Nov 08:28:00 2009
Formula One world champion Jenson Button has reportedly agreed terms on a three-year deal with McLaren which would see him team up with fellow Briton Lewis Hamilton.
The Guardian's long-standing F1 reporter Alan Henry, who has close connections with McLaren, said he could sign a contract within days.
He said the deal would be worth £6 million a year to 29-year-old Button.
There was no immediate comment from the Woking-based team or the driver's management.
Button was given a guided tour of the McLaren factory last Friday. If the deal goes through, Button would almost double his current salary and partner Hamilton, his predecessor as world champion, in all-English line-up at the Mercedes-powered team.
Button won this year's championship with Brawn GP and is looking for an increase in salary, having taken a pay-cut when Ross Brawn set up the concern out of the ashes of Toyota's factory operation.
That team will become Mercedes GP next season after a takeover was announced on Monday.
Brawn chief executive Nick Fry said on Monday that he hoped a deal could still be done with the driver but made clear that the Mercedes' takeover did not mean the team would now throw more money at him.
"We've had discussions with Jenson which we think are a sensible salary and this is not going to change anything in that respect," he told BBC radio.
"I hope Jenson will be with us next season, we've worked together for a good few years now and succeeded in winning a World Championship together," he added.
"We want Jenson to be with us but we have to recognise that Formula One is not divorced from the rest of the world.
"We work within a budget and if we spend the money in one area, we can't spend it in another."
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'Well if your interested Pat Symonds who was with Renault(still is) has booked the Vine house next week, i know the day and you dont.'
Ner ner na ner ner!
Well whoop a de doodle do,the queen is at Buckingham Palace that week and we have arranged a little something so I'll pass on the vine house thanks
Both Hamilton and Button end in the letters "ton." Perhaps there would be some cost savings on the teams lettering expenses.
button is a hamster eating machine
Peter,
You are of less than average intelligence or of higher than average evil.
Are you acquainted with Mr Laurence Kirk?
Im glad he did leeroy....Im also glad you enjoy smoking the steam off my sh it.
If Button had a daughter do you think he would name her "cuteasa?"
Button is a average driver, the true hurts "LEEROY"
no leeroy , you got stopped for smoking the steam off my sh it.... Whats up son.. not used to how the country works or something ?
Firstly I don't see why people are bring race into this firstly I am Mix-race and I don't care about race, pure people have issue with race. I should say Nico is mixed culturally coming from two different European Countries. I am happy I am not pure, pure people have big issues. I like Kimi and Lewis I hate Alonso, but he is very talented. I sorry, Button and Lewis in McLaren is a bad idea.
Ferrfarti, Merc GP, Red Bull.....THEY'RE ALL FU CK ED come 2010.....
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THE GREAT BRITISH TEAM of HAMILTON and BUTTON at McLAREN will CLEAN UP....
Hell Y
your a dumb @#$%
Hamilton has not beaten Alonso
it was the cheating team that gave him less BHP then Lewis so that there boy can be WDC rookie
but blah blah to them and you Kimi got there instead
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Mercedes, want Kimi watch this space. They will give him what ever he wants. McLaren should realise that Button, was given a illegal car, it wasn't his driving abilities. When Lewis beat him like he did Alonso, I can see Button, complaining to the BBc about unfair treatment. Button can't NOT handle Alonso or Kimi, Lewis their are the best drivers currently in F1. As a McLaren fan I would have like to see Kimi and Lewis.
Nico Rosberg is Finnish and German.....Mother German Father Finnish. Nico can not even Converse in the Finnish Languag. He is German just like his mother, they want Kimi and Nico, Nico is the future talent and Kimi is talent. If I was a F1 team I would want these drivers Alonso, Lewis, Kimi.
Button had the good fortune to have a better car in the early part of the season. And the Brawn car lost it's edge at the end of hte season. Nonetheless, Button did manage to drive the better car well. You have to give him credit for that. And the notion that he should have been able to drive the lesser car in the last half of the season well enough to win races might be expecting too much from him or any driver. Most of the time, the McLarens are one of the best performing cars, so I'm inclined to believe Button would do well with McLaren. The Brawn/Mercedes team is not likely to do that well next year in my opinion. One, Honda designed the 2009 car for the most part, not Brawn. Two, the diffuser issue gave them a distinct advantage early in 2009 and the likelihood of something like that happening again is slim. And third, the Mercedes engine was developed by McLaren and Mercedes. Without McLaren's input it remains to be seen how well Mercedes will do without that help.
Mercedes, want Kimi watch this space. They will give him what ever he wants. McLaren should realise that Button, was given a illegal car, it wasn't his driving abilities. When Lewis beat him like he did Alonso, I can see Button, complaining to the BBc about unfair treatment. Button can't NOT handle Alonso or Kimi, Lewis there are he best. As a McLaren fan I would have like to see Kimi and Lewis.
thank you for the galantry Adam, but not really worht the bother, he only huffs and puffs because I am a woman he has not dared say it to you chaps yet, really just shows what a worm he is anda coward, so if you turned up he would probably wet hinmself and cry anyway just at the sight of you.
It is much more fun to point out the story behind his lies, which of course he declares are my lies, but I could not post anything had he not posted information first. I await his next installment of his family life for me to expose the truth out of.
C3po? Who was /is JO's alter ego?
Oh please stay CP I shall miss you if you go, you have a very good sense of humour for a robot, on darn was it an android silly old brain
Which team finished 3rd and how Genio ?..mmmm...mmmmmm? there in lay the answer to your question Genio..... (so long as youve got the brains to work it out lad)
Funny how MERC suddenly decide to have their very own F1 team.....just as BMW quits... 3 star cowards I say.
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