Button relishing Australian return

Jenson Button is hopeful of continuing his long-standing love affair with the Australian Grand Prix this weekend.

Of his 15 victories, it is a remarkable statistic that 20% of those have been at Melbourne’s Albert Park, scene of the curtain-raiser to this year’s latest Formula One campaign.

It is also unusual to note that before 2009, and the first of his three wins in the last four years, the 33-year-old had finished 10th or worse on eight occasions in nine attempts.