Button signs up for McLaren dream team

by Angus Mackinnon

FORMULA ONE: LONDON, Nov 21, 2009: World champion Jenson Button will drive for McLaren alongside Lewis Hamilton in an all-British Formula One dream team next year. Button announced Wednesday that he had ended his long association with Brawn, with whom he won his first driver's title this year, to team up with 2008 champion Hamilton in a combination of two of the hottest properties in motor sport. Button said it had been a tough decision to leave Brawn but admitted the lure of McLaren and its illustrious history, had proved too strong to resist. "I've followed the McLaren team ever since I was a small boy, and it feels unbelievable to finally be a part of it," he said.

AFP