Jenson Button marked his 200th Grand Prix with a reminder of his class on Sunday when he drove his McLaren to a stirring victory in a chaotic and incident-filled Hungarian Grand Prix.
The 31-year-old Briton, who started third on the grid, made the most of some wretched ill-fortune for his team-mate and compatriot Lewis Hamilton in changing wet-dry-wet-dry conditions to record his second win of the year and the 11th of his career. "It's a great moment, all round a major weekend. For some reason I like these conditions," said Button of the slippery track.
Championship leader Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull was second with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in third.
In spite of his second place, Vettel increased his lead in the drivers' title race. He now has 234 points, 85 ahead of Webber with Hamilton, Alonso and Button bunched up behind. Red Bull lead the constructors' table with 383 points ahead of in-form McLaren on 280. Back on the circuit where he claimed his first F1 win in 2006, for Honda, Button revelled in the demanding circumstances which saw a record 88 pits stops.
Given a celebratory cake before the race on Saturday, he ate it with relish.
"We're going into the break on a nice high, but every day we will be thinking about the next race in Spa. "I felt at end of the first stint the win was on. I was able to look after the tyres, and the car felt really good.
It was a lot of fun racing with Lewis - it always is." Team chief Martin Whitmarsh was full of praise for Button. "Jenson drove a great race," he said. "He was calm, he was cool, he gave us great information. It was one of those great wins in difficult conditions." Hamilton, having started second, led for long periods after taking early control, but was caught out by a succession of strategic errors - when he chose the wrong tyres in rapidly-changing weather - and a harsh stewards' decision to give him a drive-through penalty after he forced Paul Di Resta off the track.
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