Resurgent Formula 1 star Jenson Button insists he is the sport’s greatest driver ever.
Button, 29, is the runaway leader in this year’s drivers’ championship – after notching just one Grand Prix win in his previous eight years.
Triumphs in Australia, Malaysia, Bahrain, Spain, Monaco and Turkey have catapulted him to No 1 in F1 – while fellow Briton and last year’s champion Lewis Hamilton has not had a top-three finish this season.
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On the topic of turning the tables on Hamilton, Button was more diplomatic. Asked how he felt when Lewis became world champion, he said: “It doesn’t matter who wins if I don’t.”
So when Mail on Sunday columnist Piers Morgan asked him for his opinion on the greatest racing driver in history, Button said simply: ‘Me, I’m the best.’
“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.”
He met the model – who owes her exotic looks to her Japanese mother and an Argentine father with Spanish and Italian origins – in Tokyo last December. They started dating in April.
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Button was cheered on by his girlfriend Jessica Michibata and was supported by his father, former rallycross driver John.
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