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When Jenson Button finally broke his duck!

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Jenson Button took the first win of his Formula 1 career on this day in 2006 after a chaotic Hungarian Grand Prix.

The Brit's win had been long-awaited - this was the 113th Grand Prix start of his career!

It was a race that established Button's credentials for outstanding performances in difficult conditions. He had qualified in 14th place in the Honda, but we weather and safety car periods allowed him to work his way up to second place.

Fernando Alonso was leading in the Renault by that time. However disaster struck on lap 51 when a loose wheel nut forced Alonso out. Button went on the win the race by half a minute from McLaren's Pedro de la Rosa and BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld.

It was the first win for a Honda chassis since John Surtees' victory in the 1967 Italian Grand Prix. And it was the first time an Englishman had won the race since Johnny Herbert in 1999.

Jenson Button would go on to claim 15 Grand Prix wins in 306 starts in total. That included six victories in the first seven outings of 2009 which propelled him to the world championship. He won the title by 11 points from Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel.

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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