{"id":22458,"date":"2014-07-04T06:48:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T10:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22458"},"modified":"2014-07-04T06:48:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T10:48:40","slug":"button-on-the-market-after-dennis-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/button-on-the-market-after-dennis-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Button on the market after Dennis criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button has declared himself on the market, in the wake of McLaren supremo Ron Dennis&#8217; criticism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Jenson-Button-3.jpg\" alt=\"Jenson-Button-3\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" \/>Dennis is said to have dismayed other members of the Woking based team&#8217;s senior management this week when the 67-year-old publicly urged Button, who is out of contract at the end of the year, to &#8220;try harder&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Button also did not appreciate the comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Ron is practicing to be a motivational speaker maybe,&#8221; he told reporters ahead of his home race at Silverstone, where he will wear a pink helmet in tribute to his late father John.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we should be pointing a finger at any individual within the team,&#8221; said Button.<\/p>\n<p>Button, 34, rejected Dennis&#8217; claim that he is not pushing to the maximum with the uncompetitive 2014 car.<\/p>\n<p>But he said he is keen to race its 2015 successor, to be powered by a works Honda engine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to stay,&#8221; said Button, who is out of contract at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This team has a bright future and the partnership with Honda will help the team a lot, having that connection with a manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it isn&#8217;t the only team in formula one,&#8221; the Briton added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button has declared himself on the market, in the wake of McLaren supremo Ron Dennis&#8217; criticism. Dennis is said to have dismayed other members of the Woking based team&#8217;s senior management this week when the 67-year-old publicly urged Button, who is out of contract at the end of the year, to &#8220;try harder&#8221;. Clearly, &#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":[5262,5340,153,5284,880],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22458"}],"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=22458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22459,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22458\/revisions\/22459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}