But Button, world champion in 2009, declared on Thursday on arrival at Silverstone for Sunday’s British Grand Prix: ‘I wouldn’t consider it.
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It says much about McLaren’s nightmare of a season that the team just finishing at Silverstone may raise one of the biggest cheers of the British Grand Prix.
“Today was more or less as we expected”, Alonso said.
“It will be interesting to see this weekend if we can, first, finish the race, because after four retirements in my case I would like to see the chequered flag if possible”. “I’d be pretty happy if I retired right now with my career in terms of achievements but I would love to win the British GP or even be on the podium”, he said.
McLaren have won on 14 occasions – this time points would be priceless and Button can’t wait to get rolling. Indeed it is arguably McLaren’s worst season in a glittering history which has delivered eight drivers’ and 12 constructors’ championships. So it’s still a massive test bed at the moment, we’re not going to be looking for points this weekend unless something happens overnight, which I’ll be surprised. I look forward to this race every year.
Neale, however, believes it is too early to shift the focus to next year, particularly when the rules are likely to remain largely the same going into the 2016 campaign.
‘There is a place for electric racing if that is what you want to call it and it is a good fight for the drivers there, but not for me.’.
“A lot of us agree, probably not with everything, but we all have our own opinions as to how F1 can improve”, Button said.
“However, he did acknowledge that they may have to turn their attention to the future if plans are introduced to revolutionise the sport in 2017”.
The Formula One champion arrived at the Cain Road headquarters in the new Honda Civic Type R to meet the team responsible for kitting out the cars he races around tracks across the globe.
“They have just done a better job than anyone, and it is not their fault that the races have sometimes become boring because they are out half-a-lap in the lead”, Button added. It is not like the eighties when Honda came in and had no competition.
“For McLaren-Honda, it’s the first of two home Grand Prix for us this year and we always enjoy incredible support and a completely unique atmosphere thanks to the huge British following”.
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“We all want a challenge. This is no exception”.
