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Button would accept smaller salary
28 February 2009Britain's Jenson Button is willing to accept a pay cut as long, as the team will be able to put him on the grid of next month's opening race in Melbourne. According to a source within the Honda team Button is more determined to retain his drive rather than the money.
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British newspaper The Times reports that Button is willing to give up half of his salary as well as bonuses in order to assist the management buyout of Honda. A source told The Times: "The people who have said that Jenson was a money-grabbing playboy should eat their words. He could have held out for his full pay, like certain bankers, and even gone to law with a cast-iron case. But that was never in his mind.
"All he wanted was to come to a deal that would allow him to drive a car put on the grid by Ross Brawn. Nothing else mattered."
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