Button shrugs off blip.Byline: Frank Haynes David Francis Haynes, usually known as Frank Haynes (8 March 1926 – 11 September 1998) was a British Labour politician. A former miner, Haynes became MP for Ashfield in 1979, regaining a seat that had been lost to the Conservatives in the 1977 by-election. JENSON BUTTON Jenson Alexander Lyons Button, often called Jense, (born 19 January, 1980) is an English Formula One racing driver. He currently competes for the Honda Racing F1 team. He won his first Grand Prix in Hungary, on August 6 2006 after 113 races. insists he will quickly bounce back from his disappointing sixth-placed finish at the British Grand Prix This article is about Formula One race. For other uses, see British Grand Prix (disambiguation). The British Grand Prix is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship. . The championship leader went into yesterday's race at Silverstone eyeing a fifth win in a row and had high hopes of recording an historic first-ever victory on home soil. But the Englishman's dreams were dashed from the outset with his Brawn GP car struggling to get grip into its tyres in low temperatures at the Northamptonshire circuit. The 29-year-old could only manage sixth place on the starting grid and never competed in a race won by Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel (born July 3 1987 in Heppenheim) is a German race car driver. He is currently contracted to the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team alongside Vitantonio Liuzzi after replacing Scott Speed on July 31 2007. . The victory means the German now trails Button by 25 points at the halfway point in the season but Vettel's car now appears to have the edge on the Brawn after the Milton Keynes based team rolled out a raft of revisions to their RB5. But Button believes yesterday's race was a blip for Brawn and that picking up three points on a bad day was actually a success for the team. He said: "If you don't get the tyres in their working range it doesn't matter what car you've got, it doesn't work. "The pace wasn't there and that's just the way our car is at low temperatures. Hopefully this will be the worst race of the year. We battled hard to get three points and they may well end up proving very valuable." Button's team chief Ross Brawn agreed and said: "This is not a complete disaster for the championship. You can have days when you struggle and it could have been a lot worse." CAPTION(S): SIXTH SENSE: Button |
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