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Brawn and Button keen to sign new deal

Jenson Button is prepared to extend his contract with the Brawn GP team following his sensational start to the 2009 season. The British driver has led this year's World Championship since the opening round in Australia and currently heads the table by fifty-one points from Brazilian team-mate Rubens Barrichello.

Nick Fry, chief executive officer for Brawn Grand Prix

Frome's Button has won five out of six races so far in 2009 and comfortably leads the drivers' championship as a result of this. According to Brawn GP CEO Nick Fry, both the team and driver are keen to continue the partnership over the course of future seasons. "Jenson's been with us a long time; we've had failures and we've had successes," Fry commented via his personal assistant. "My objective, and our objective, is to have him for the rest of his career and nothing's changed on that front; it's mutual that he would like to stay with the team, and after five race wins we should be able to get something together."

Fry does accept, however, that Button's salary would feature an increase in the event of claiming the ultimate crowd this year. "I'm sure he and his manager are sitting there thinking his price is going up the whole time," Fry continued, "but maybe the sponsorship for the team is going up too, so maybe we can afford it."

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