McLaren will boast an all British Champion line-up next season after Jenson Button's move from Brawn was confirmed on Wednesday. With the latest two title holders racing in the same colours in 2010, the Woking team will house two Champions for the first time since Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in 1989.
With Button having accepted a significant pay cut ahead of this season and then desiring a rise to £6m for next season, his crown-clinching Brawn team - now Mercedes Grand Prix - refused this, with demands eventually being met at McLaren, which continues to be a customer of the German engine manufacturer for at least another six seasons.
Although the amount of years is unspecified at this stage, the Button-McLaren contract has been confirmed as a 'multi-year deal' as a team signs to the two most recent Champion for the first time in F1 history. The last time two Champions were partnered in one team was another all-British affair with Graham Hill and Jim Clark being Lotus team-mates in 1968.
Wow...will we see the repeat of teammate racing each other as in Hamilton-Alonso few years back??? Wait and see...
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