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Button celebrates his first Grand Prix victory

It took Britain's Jenson Button a long time before he finally found the top step of the podium in Formula One. He was into this sixth season by the time he clinched victory on his 113th Grand Prix, winning the Hungarian Grand Prix on this date, August 6, in 2006 - the first British winner since David Coulthard in March 2003, and the first English driver to win since Johnny Herbert in 1999. Button had started from 14th place on the grid in his Honda, but rain upset proceedings and it was Button who read the conditions perfectly to allow him to pull out a 30 second advantage over McLaren's Pedro de la Rosa and Sauber's Nick Heidfeld. "Wow! What a day!," he said afterwards....
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