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TREMAYNE: 'A big weight off my shoulders' – Button’s brilliant Budapest breakthrough in 2006
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At last he had been freed from torment. Released from the millstone hanging round his neck. On Sunday, August 6th, 2006, Jenson Button had finally done what he feared he might not, despite all the promise he had shown, be destined to do: he had won a Grand Prix. At the 113th attempt.
On the Hungaroring – where fellow Briton Damon Hill had won his first Grand Prix, back in 1993 – he had answered his critics in style. And ended the longest drought there had ever been between British victories, with 65 races having come and gone since David Coulthard won the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne in 2003.
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