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Button 'pretty happy' to extend McLaren stay

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McLaren driver Jenson Button has said that he is pretty happy that he would remain with his current team next year as the team draws ever closer to announcing their driver line-up for next season.

Despite retiring from Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix and failing to be classified at the end of a race for the first time in two years, Button displayer no qualms about his fate for 2015.

Button said that he is not worried in any way about that, adding that he is pretty happy that he would be there next year, and he feels that he is doing a good job right now, The Guardian reported.

 

Button also said that he just has to sort Saturdays qualifying a bit more, adding that he has been a bit unlucky and not got the best out of it every weekend, which annoys him more than anything else, but he said that he would get there.

The team's racing director, Eric Boullier, has revealed that talks between himself and the McLaren Group CEO, Ron Dennis, are moving on apace. Earlier this month Dennis promised a definitive decision would be announced by the end of the season, which climaxes in Abu Dhabi on 23 November.

Boullier said that they make progress every day, although there is absolutely no plan to announce anybody yet, adding that it is down to Dennis and him, but added that the CEO has the last call as the owner and chairman of the company, although when it comes to protocol it is the board that has the last call.

But, he said that Dennis and he generally agree. Boullier also said that on this subject of the drivers they are quite transparent and open together.

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First Published: Sep 23 2014 | 2:09 PM IST

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