Button expecting backlash

Jenson Button is fully expecting his rivals to quickly make inroads into Brawn GP’s undoubted advantage.

Button clinched an historic win for himself and for the new kids on the grid in yesterday’s Australian Grand Prix in which team-mate Rubens Barrichello made it a remarkable one-two finish.

Not since 1954, when legendary five-time champion Juan Manuel Fangio led home Karl Kling for Mercedes in the French Grand Prix, has a team taken the top two places on their debut.

It was also the first victory for a team on their maiden outing since Wolf in 1977, with such statistics underlining the enormity of their achievement.

An appeal hangs over the result as an independent panel of judges sits in Paris on April 14, with a ruling to be made on whether a stewards’ decision stands after they ruled the cars legal in relation to the rear diffusers.

Naturally, that mattered little to Button, who refused to let anything detract from only the second win of his 154-race career.

“That’s nothing we can change as drivers,” said Button.

“We’re here to put on a show, and also to get the best out of the equipment on offer, which is exactly what we did over the weekend.”