Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  E tino whakapono ana a Jenson Button i tika tana whakatau i tana hainatanga ki a McLaren ahakoa ngā raruraru e pa ana ki te kapa. Ko Button me tana hoa kapa a Kevin Magnussen - e tu ana mo te ngaro o Fernando Alonso - ka tiimata te Grand Prix o Ahitereiria o te Ratapu mai i te rarangi o muri o te rarangi i te 17th me te 18th nga tuunga. Ahakoa ehara i te waahi iti rawa a McLaren, i runga i te mahinga me te tawhiti o te tere i whakaritea ki nga motuka rangatira, koinei te mahi tino kino o te kapa i roto i o raatau hitori 49-tau. Kei te whakaahuahia a Jenson Button me tana wahine tauira a Jessica i mua i te huihuinga tohu o te Rahoroi. I whakamanahia e te tangata o Ingarangi tētahi rā kino i te tari, ā, i whakakorea i te tohu i te Q1. Ko Button te mea pai rawa atu i te ono hēkona tere atu i te toa rangatira a Lewis Hamilton, nana nei i mau te 39 o nga pou o tana umanga Formula Kotahi. Ko Button, nana nei i haina he kirimana hou e rua tau ki a McLaren i te marama o Tihema i muri i tana tatari mo nga marama mo te whakatau mena ka puritia ia, he tino whakapono a McLaren me te kaiwhakarato hiko hou a Honda ka tika. Heoi, kua whakatupato te 35-tau-tau ka roa te wa ka mea ia: 'I taku hainatanga ano i whakaaro ahau mo te wa roa. E whakaaro ana tātou katoa ki te wā roa. 'Kāore e tika kia noho mātou ki konei ināianei, kia pakeke ki tētahi, nā te mea he akoranga nui tēnei mō mātou. 'Ka taea e tēnei te mea nui i roto i te heke mai, a ko te mea e hiahia ana tatou i roto i te hākinakina, te tangata ki te wero Mercedes i roto i mua, a tino whakaaro ahau e taea e tenei te kapa e rave i te reira. E kī ana a Button kei a McLaren ngā taputapu hei wero i te Mercedes a Lewis Hamilton ā muri ake nei. Ka tīmata a Button rāua ko tōna hoa kapa a Kevin Magnussen i te rarangi whakamutunga o te tīmatanga i Melbourne āpōpō. E mohio ana ahau he tawhiti rawa atu tātau i tēnei wā, engari he tino uaua tonu. 'He wā uaua tēnei, ā, ka roa pea ētahi wiki, engari ko te mea tērā ka kaha ake ai mātou i te wā e heke mai ana, ā, ko te tūmanako ka hanga mātou hei kapa toa. 'Kāore noa e tūmanako kia rua hēkona tātau i te whakataetae e whai ake nei, kātahi...
Ka tīmata a Jenson Button me tana hoa kapa a Kevin Magnussen i te rarangi whakamutunga. E ono hēkona te roa o Button i a Lewis Hamilton nāna i mau te pou. Engari e mea ana a Briton kei a McLaren nga taputapu hei wero i a Mercedes. E kī ana a ia ko te hononga McLaren-Honda he kaupapa'wā roa '.