BUTTON WINS SUPER GT CROWN

WHERE: MOTEGI, JAPAN WHEN: NOVEMBER 11 Success has been hard to come by in recent years for Jenson Button. The 2009 Formula 1 champion was lumbered with a series of ever decreasingly competitive Mclaren cars during the twilight of his F1 career. Him spearing Pascal Wehrlein into the wall at Monaco in his final one-off appearance last year marked a rather desperate exit.

But success was back on Button’s agenda this season. After a year out, he returned to full-time competition with a Super GT title tilt alongside competing in the LMP1 class of the World Endurance Championship.

Button had dipped his toe in the Japanese Super GT water at the end of last year and, alongside Kunimitsu Honda team-mate Naoki Yamamoto, he clinched the title by just three points with third place in the Motegi finale. Button became the first rookie to win the top class in over 10 years and described his triumph as “just as big” as taking his F1 title.