{"id":12093,"date":"2011-05-02T06:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T10:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12093"},"modified":"2011-05-02T06:48:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T10:48:03","slug":"mclaren-to-keep-button-for-years-whitmarsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-to-keep-button-for-years-whitmarsh\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren to keep Button for &#8216;years&#8217; &#8211; Whitmarsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren is poised to agree a new multi-year contract with Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 world champion moved to the famous Woking based squad from Brawn at the end of his title-winning season, reportedly signing a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The French news agency AFP quotes Button, 31, as saying he is happy at McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t see any reason to be anywhere else.\u00a0 I&#8217;m driving for one of the best teams in the world,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a position that most drivers would love to be in and I&#8217;ve worked very hard for it.\u00a0 I might be around for three years, five years &#8230; I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Martin Whitmarsh said: &#8220;If Jenson says he is totally committed and wants to do &#8216;x&#8217; more years, then I suspect that we could quickly come to an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a tremendous asset to the team and when we get around to that, I hope that it will be a quick and easy conversation,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren is poised to agree a new multi-year contract with Jenson Button. The 2009 world champion moved to the famous Woking based squad from Brawn at the end of his title-winning season, reportedly signing a three-year deal. The French news agency AFP quotes Button, 31, as saying he is happy at McLaren. &#8220;I can&#8217;t see &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,153,491,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12094,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093\/revisions\/12094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}