Is Button set to make McLaren fly?
The flair, the experience and the maturity managed to overcome Lewis Hamilton at McLaren last year. Tony Dodgins reckons Jenson could do it again to launch a challenge for his second title
I've got to admit - of all the ponderables you inevitably have at this time of year, the one that interests me most is what Jenson Button will serve up for McLaren in 2012.
While discussing Button, team chief Martin Whitmarsh spoke about his own thought processes when Jenson hung on to win his world title for Brawn, and McLaren subsequently signed him.
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