Button set for new Brawn deal

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After Honda's demise, Button was forced to tear up the £8million-a-year contract he had with the Japanese manufacturer. It led to Button signing a one-year deal with Brawn, resurrected from Honda's ashes, albeit he was forced to take a £5million cut.

The 29-year-old has since rewarded them handsomely by winning in Australia, Malaysia, Bahrain, Barcelona, and on Sunday in Monaco, and Brawn GP CEO Nick Fry said: "Jenson's been with us a long time, and we've had failures and we've had successes. My objective, and our objective, is to have him for the rest of his career, and nothing's changed on that front."

He added: "It's mutual that he would like to stay with the team, and after five race wins, we should be able to get something together."

Asked as to whether Button's value will rise further if he becomes world champion, Fry said: "I'm sure he and his manager are sitting there thinking his price is going up the whole time.

"But maybe the sponsorship for the team is going up too, so maybe we can afford it."

With his win in Monaco, Button joined an all-star cast of drivers to have won five of the first six races after Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, Sir Jackie Stewart, Nigel Mansell and Michael Schumacher.

It was a feat Schumacher achieved three times, and on each occasion team boss Ross Brawn was the brains behind such an accomplishment.