Jenson Button's Honda stable
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Jenson Button's Honda stable
or at least for the moment, whilst a BAR driver. Gets an S2000 as company car, and actually forked out his own cash for NSX:
Honda NSX is right on the Button
By Kevin Eason
IT TAKES a lot to impress a young man whose day job is driving cars at more than 200mph. But Jenson Button is impressed. So much so that in the rarified world of a grand prix driver, who is showered with more freebies than he can use, he has got out the chequebook and is spending his very own money on a new car.
His choice will come as a surprise even to enthusiasts who always reach for the Ferrari yearbook when discussing supercars or refuse to look past the claims of Porsche.
But Button is a man of very firm opinions and he knows a good deal when he sees one. And he saw one late last year at the Motegi Circuit in Japan. He had finished his grand prix year and was preparing to leave Renault for the BAR Honda team. His new employers asked if the young Englishman fancied a bit of a tour of Honda history and a blast around their test track in some of their cars. He did and a few laps later, Button was ready to order a Honda NSX.
Now the NSX is a bit of a grandad among supercars, first on the scene more than a decade ago as the Japanese entry into a market that, at the time, was awash with companies trying to prove that they could build the biggest/fastest/flashest/priciest car of them all. Jaguar had launched its own clunker, the XJ220, and then wished they hadn
Honda NSX is right on the Button
By Kevin Eason
IT TAKES a lot to impress a young man whose day job is driving cars at more than 200mph. But Jenson Button is impressed. So much so that in the rarified world of a grand prix driver, who is showered with more freebies than he can use, he has got out the chequebook and is spending his very own money on a new car.
His choice will come as a surprise even to enthusiasts who always reach for the Ferrari yearbook when discussing supercars or refuse to look past the claims of Porsche.
But Button is a man of very firm opinions and he knows a good deal when he sees one. And he saw one late last year at the Motegi Circuit in Japan. He had finished his grand prix year and was preparing to leave Renault for the BAR Honda team. His new employers asked if the young Englishman fancied a bit of a tour of Honda history and a blast around their test track in some of their cars. He did and a few laps later, Button was ready to order a Honda NSX.
Now the NSX is a bit of a grandad among supercars, first on the scene more than a decade ago as the Japanese entry into a market that, at the time, was awash with companies trying to prove that they could build the biggest/fastest/flashest/priciest car of them all. Jaguar had launched its own clunker, the XJ220, and then wished they hadn
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