Jenson Button insists he is happy to be paired with Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n
Both sides of the new McLaren-Honda garage have won world championships, but Spaniard Alonso is regarded not only as arguably the best on the grid, but perhaps often difficult to share a team with.<\/p>\n
Notably, he clashed at McLaren with Lewis Hamilton, and at Ferrari he humbled two consecutive Ferrari teammates, Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen.<\/p>\n
McLaren supremo Ron Dennis, however, says he has noticed Alonso is now “more mature” than in 2007, and has not arrived demanding clear number 1 status.<\/p>\n
“He said ‘equality, I accept equality’,” Dennis revealed.<\/p>\n
Team veteran and Briton Button’s last McLaren teammate was the rookie Kevin Magnussen, but he insists he is more than happy to now share a garage with a driver of Alonso’s status.<\/p>\n
“I think every driver wants a competitive teammate,” he is quoted by the Spanish sports daily AS.<\/p>\n
“It’s always good to see what the other guy can do, their strengths and weaknesses, and also to work with someone as experienced as Fernando.<\/p>\n
“He’s a double world champion and has been around almost as long as me, driving for many different teams so I think it’s a huge benefit to us,” Button, 35, added.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always said I want the best drivers next to me, that I would love to have Fernando as my teammate and here we are — it’s a good partnership and I’m sure we’ll work well together.”<\/p>\n
\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jenson Button insists he is happy to be paired with Fernando Alonso. Both sides of the new McLaren-Honda garage have won world championships, but Spaniard Alonso is regarded not only as arguably the best on the grid, but perhaps often difficult to share a team with. Notably, he clashed at McLaren with Lewis Hamilton, and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,149,5340,153,4374,880],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841"}],"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=26841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26842,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions\/26842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}