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Steve Cooper: On the Limit

"Button is driving better than ever"

Autosport Magazine Sep 5, 2007, 2:54 PM

Away from the track, there's little on the surface to suggest that the Honda team is suffering a season from hell. Media attention has drifted away from last year's tabloid darling, Jenson Button, and the disaster that is the RA107 has been so impossible to disguise that it's fruitless to attempt to stick the knife in any further.

So even though the proud Honda Motor Corporation's two F1 cars sit ignominiously on the back row of the Turkish Grand Prix grid, there are no outward signs of disquiet as we sit in the team's motorhome at lunchtime on Sunday. On the wall, the TV monitors pick up coverage of the F1 drivers' parade and everyone's interest slowly gathers focus as the truck's interviewer, moving from one driver to the next, eventually alights on Jenson Button.