Button Has 'no Regrets' After Final Race

Former Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button says he has "no regrets" aft nan last title of his profession successful motorsport.

The 45-year-old near F1 successful 2017 and vanished 16th for Cadillac successful nan 8 Hours of Bahrain title connected Saturday.

Button won nan 2009 F1 title for Brawn and besides raced for Williams, McLaren and BAR among others successful a 17-year career.

He moved connected to racing successful various different disciplines including nan endurance of Le Mans, supercars, Extreme E and rallycross.

He said: "I person nary regrets astatine all. I've done everything I wanted to do successful my profession and more.

"It's nan correct clip to stop. Racing takes a batch of committedness - travel, preparation, nan intelligence load - and I want to walk that power elsewhere now.

"My kids are increasing up accelerated and I don't want to miss those moments.

"I don't consciousness for illustration I've near thing connected nan table. I'm contented pinch what I've achieved."

While Button is leaving master racing, he said he still intends to compete for nosy successful his ain classical cars, erstwhile he tin "pick and choose" what he does.

Button retired from Formula 1 astatine nan extremity of nan 2016 play arsenic a world champion, a 15-time winner, and 1 of nan starring lights of his generation.

His post-F1 career, dabbling successful each sorts of racing but astir prominently successful endurance racing, has not featured nan aforesaid highlights. No Le Mans triumph for Button, for example, dissimilar his erstwhile McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso.

Also dissimilar Alonso, Button will not beryllium remembered arsenic an all-time F1 great. But that's not to opportunity he was not tin of greatness - he very overmuch was.

His world title pinch Brawn successful 2009 is 1 of F1's awesome fairytales.

The squad looked group for nan scrapheap erstwhile owners Honda pulled retired of F1 astatine nan extremity of 2008. But squad leader Ross Brawn knew nan car they had built was a bully one, and he fought to support nan squad live complete nan winter.

Six wins successful nan first 7 races followed, and though Button had a awesome wobble successful nan 2nd half of nan season, and did not triumph again, he sewage himself together successful clip to clinch nan title pinch a superb comeback thrust successful Brazil.

Button had nan courageousness and assurance to move to McLaren for 2010 to return connected Lewis Hamilton, and acquitted himself well, scoring much points complete their 3 seasons together, moreover if Hamilton was undoubtedly nan superior driver connected balance.

It was successful that era that Button's top performances came, astir famously his singular triumph successful Canada successful 2011, erstwhile he came from past to first successful nan last 30 laps of nan longest expansive prix successful history.

There were different times erstwhile he was connected a level beyond his rivals, astir often successful mixed conditions, erstwhile he had an almost supernatural consciousness for nan changing grip levels.

As an all-round package, he did not person nan extent of accomplishment and consistency of Hamilton and Alonso. But astatine his best, he could hit them adjacent and square. And very fewer tin opportunity that.