Button: "Brawn's financial future is not yet clear"

Jenson Button was happy after his victory in Australia, but the British driver said the result offered no guarantees for the future of Brawn GP. While eating with new girlfriend Jessica at a restaurant near Albert Park, Button told reporters that he is 'so excited for the rest of the season that he can't sleep at night. But despite all the money injected by Honda last year, the long development of the BGP001 and the power of the Mercedes engine, the XNUMX-year-old Englishman admits that the all-white livery tells another story.

"We don't have the full budget yet, but we hope to have it and we hope that people will be interested in what we've done with an all-white car," the Briton told the British tabloid Express.

The link with Virgin, which analysts estimate has reached the value of millions of dollars in terms of TV exposure in Melbourne alone, is an agreement for only two races, worth $500.000. Honda has committed to paying part of the budget for 2009 to keep the team alive and avoid severance payments for its former employees.

Button, who led the team to its first victory, then added: "Our factory and our facilities are very good, it's just a question of whether or not we have money to run them. I hope and imagine that in the end it will be all OK. Otherwise it would be a big waste," Button said.

Andre' Cotta