For British F1 fans, when world champion Jenson Button joined forces with fellow world champion Lewis Hamilton at McLaren in 2010, it was seen as the possible beginning of a new golden era for a country that had already produced eight world champions who had won 12 titles between them. While the partnership was successful, Button finishing runner up in his second season at McLaren, it never fully lived up to expectations. Reflecting on his time alongside Hamilton, Button, who had known his fellow-Briton from his Karting days when his father John would service the Stevenage Rocket's engines, the 2009 champion, while acknowledging his teammate's undoubted talents, admits to finding him...
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