BUTTON RETURNS TO WILLIAMS.(Competition)

BAR-Honda's Jenson Button will join Mark Webber at BMW WilliamsF1 for 2005, returning to the team where he began his Grand Prix career in 2000. Button, 24, left Williams after one season to make way for Juan Pablo Montoya, who moves to McLaren for 2005. Button's two-year deal shocked Formula One insiders and angered BAR-Honda team principal David Richards.

"We intend to enforce our contract with Jenson. This is ridiculous and we will challenge it. I am dumbfounded,'' said Richards. Button, who sits third in this year's drivers' standings, said: "I am very pleased that ...

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