Button: I'm the best

Sunday 5th July 2009

Jenson Button cheekily reckons he's "the best" racing driver in history.

Although he's currently sitting at the top of Formula One, having claimed six victories in the opening eight races of this year's Championship, the Brit's road to success has been anything but simple.

In fact, it has also been anything but a hint that he's the greatest.

And yet that's how Button billed himself when the affable Piers Morgan, interviewing him for August's GQ Magazine, asked the Brawn GP driver for his opinion on the greatest racing driver in history.

"Me, I'm the best," was Button's response. No doubt with his tongue firmly in his cheek.

The interview also touched on last year's Championship success by fellow Brit Lewis Hamilton.

Asked for his thoughts on Hamilton's 2008 title, 29-year-old said: "It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win.

"I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

"But him winning was great for the sport and good for me because I was able to get my head down without much attention and get a great car sorted out.

"I didn't have to worry about people writing rubbish about me because Lewis was getting it all."

The two Brits, though, have had a remarkable turnaround in form this season. While Button from being lapped to winning races and doing the lapping himself, Hamilton has gone from race winner to the chap finishing a lap down.

As such Button has already put a lap on Hamilton on more than one occasions this season but instead of crowing about it, he has a bit of sympathy for the trials the McLaren driver is having to go through.

"I know everyone loved that! Lewis was asked about it on the BBC and he said nothing," he said when asked what it was like to lap Hamilton.

"But he's in a difficult situation now, the kind I've been in a lot before, and it's tough for him but we'll see what he's really made of, and I think we'll find he's mentally strong, and very quick, and will come through it well."

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