It was on August 6, 2006 that Jenson Button finally won his first Formula One Grand Prix, and his father John was on hand at the Hungaroring to witness the fulfilment of a life-long dream by his son, who was 26 at the time and competing in his 113th race having made his début with Williams in 2000.
By the time that Button finally made it onto the top step of the podium in Budapest - where he was joined by McLaren's Pedro de la Rosa and Sauber's Nick Heidfeld - he was already in his fourth year at BAR-Honda, little knowing that two years later Honda would abruptly quit the sport and leave Button seemingly out of a job - only for 2009 to turn out instead to be a world championship-winning year for the British star. Funny how these things turn out sometimes...
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