Button flies to Asia as Honda team chief praises his talent

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2006

BUDAPEST (AFP) — Hungarian Grand Prix winner Jenson Button has started work on a series of promotional public relations exercises in China as his Honda team chief Nick Fry praised his talent.

Less than 24 hours after landing his long-awaited first victory at the 113th attempt, the 26-year-old Briton was back at work Monday and left the celebrations to his father John and the rest of his Honda team.

Fry, who had stuck by his belief in Button even when his own position was under threat, was full of praise for the driver who picked his way through the rainstorms and debris left by others' accidents to win the Hungarian Grand Prix.

"When he overtook Michael (Schumacher), I thought 'that'll show 'em,' to those who said that Jenson could not overtake and those who...