Confident Button has ‘nothing to prove’

JENSON BUTTON may have joined McLaren for the challenge, but he is adamant he no longer has anything to prove to anyone, not even to himself.

For the first time in his entire motorsport career, Button starts the forthcoming season with the coveted number one on his car, the figure emblematic of the fact he is the reigning world champion.

It is a fact that hit home today when he and Lewis Hamilton pulled the wraps off McLaren’s new car, the MP4-25, at the UK headquarters of the team’s primary sponsor Vodafone in Newbury. Sceptics have questioned the wisdom of Button’s decision to quit Brawn GP, with whom he won the world title last season, and go up against Hamilton who has been part of McLaren for the last 12 years.