Jenson Button says the chances of he and Naoki Yamamoto defending their SUPER GT title are receding, despite returning to the podium in last weekend’s Fuji 500-mile round.

By: Rachit ThukralCo-author: Tomohiro Yoshita

The Kunimitsu Honda duo charged from 10th on the grid to finish second in the bonus-points race, accumulating 18 points to move up to fifth in the drivers’ standings.

However, Button remains pessimistic about his championship chances, citing the points advantage the championship-leading LeMans Lexus team has built with back-to-back victories in Thailand and Fuji.

https://www.motorsport.com/supergt/news/button-title-defence-difficult-yamamoto/4508599/

Honda has deployed the Civic Type R to set a new front-wheel drive, production car lap-record at the iconic Mount Panorama circuit at Bathurst, Australia. Not the most exciting news you may think, but the driver was a certain Jenson Button. Nice to know he’s still doing his thing isn’t it?

The former Honda F1 driver set a time of 2m 35.2s on the 3.9-mile circuit – home to the bonkers Bathurst 1000 – which is actually considered a public road for 350 days of the year.

Incidentally, Jenson also holds the unofficial, all-time lap-record on the Mount Panorama circuit having done a 1m 48.8s in a Formula One car in 2011 whilst promoting the Australian Grand Prix, which is held a short (in Australian terms) eight-hour drive away in Melbourne.

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/jenson-button-has-set-bathurst-lap-record-honda-civic-type-r

Having long occupied a special place in motor racing, this year’s 86th edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours has an added sense of excitement with the participation of two former Formula One world champions in Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button. They will take to the track on Saturday in the highest LMP1 category, with Alonso racing for Toyota and Button for the privateer SMP team.

For Alonso, it is a step towards his goal of matching Graham Hill in winning motor racing’s triple crown, for which he needs to add Le Mans and the Indy 500 to his Monaco wins. At the Circuit de la Sarthe, the Spaniard was relaxed, yet with an appreciable sense of focus and an enthusiasm that has increasingly been missing driving an uncompetitive McLaren in F1.

Being here was special, he insisted. “The fans feel the magic of the place,” he said. “Where you have the contact with the fans, like the drivers’ parade, you feel the amazing atmosphere Le Mans has. The parade lap will be very special and I will try to enjoy every moment and have the memories for a long time.”

Alonso has been diligent in his preparation and won the opening round of the WEC in Spa, but energised by the remarkable challenge of the event. “This race is 16 F1 grands prix in 24 hours.” he said. “When I drive [my stints] it is like doing two grands prix. In F1, you have two weeks to recover, here you have four hours. There is no race tougher than this one for the car, the mechanics, the engine and the drivers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jun/15/jenson-button-fernando-alonso-le-mans-24-hours

When Jenson Button bowed out from Formula One at the end of last season there was a sense he was entirely comfortable with his decision. The British driver was almost demob-happy in his final races after a long career that had begun in 2000 for Williams, included a world championship for BrawnGP in 2009 and concluded with seven years at McLaren.

Although the latter had retained Button on sabbatical this year with an option for 2018, it was clear he did not really expect to climb behind the wheel again.

The 37-year-old will have to dust down the race suit once more after McLaren announced he will replace Fernando Alonso at the Monaco Grand Prix, while the Spaniard competes in the Indianapolis 500. Button’s skills will not have faded during the short-lived period of R&R but a tough task awaits.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/apr/14/jenson-button-f1-return-mclaren-monaco-gp

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/10835864/jenson-button-excited-for-monaco-gp-f1-return-say-mclaren

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/129005

Jenson Button is on the short-list to drive for Williams in 2017.

The 36-year-old could make an emotional return to the team that gave him his Grand Prix break as a 19-year-old in 2000.

MirrorSport has learned 2009 world champion Button is high on a list that also includes Brazil’s Felipe Massa and Finn Valtterie Bottas.

With neither of those men bringing in significant finance, the power of public support in England and his popularity with sponsors could swing things in the direction of the boy from Frome.

Team boss Frank Williams is known to be a firm fan.

Unlike last season, when Button had to wait on current employers McLaren to decide whether they would take up the option on his services, his future is in his own hands

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/williams-eye-jenson-button-2017-8386950

There were mixed emotions for McLaren at the Monaco Grand Prix as Jenson Button picked up the team’s first points of the season, but unreliability once again struck Fernando Alonso.

The reunification of the McLaren-Honda partnership has got off to a slow start, with the team enduring their worst ever opening to a season.

However, with Monaco placing less of an emphasis on engine power, Button was able to pick up four points for eighth place.

Jenson Button says scoring McLaren’s first points of the season is a “stepping stone” for the team, after he finished eighth at the Monaco Grand Prix.

The points in Monte Carlo represent remarkable progress with their car, which was five seconds off the pace during qualifying for the opening race in Australia.

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