Button joins legends after fulfilling boyhood dream

JENSON BUTTON made one mistake all weekend and thankfully for him it came after he had fulfilled a boyhood dream with victory at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Button was imperious in a Brawn GP car that has won in a park, the dry, the wet, and now around the most famous street track in the world.

It was Button’s fifth win in six races, and he joins a pantheon of F1 greats to achieve such a feat, after Alberto Ascari (1952), Juan Manuel Fangio (1954), Jim Clark (1965), Jackie Stewart (1969), Nigel Mansell (1992) and Michael Schumacher (1994, 2002 and 2004).

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