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Button aims for ‘solid weekend’ in Belgium

 XPB Images Jenson Button says he hopes McLaren-Honda can have a “solid” Belgian Grand Prix weekend, despite Spa-Francorchamps not playing to the strengths of his MP4-31 package. The longest venue of the season signals the end of Formula One’s four-week summer break with a track that Button calls “brutal on the cars”. McLaren’s engine partner Honda has admitted the power-hungry nature of the 7.004 km layout “won’t suit us” but the 2009 world champion will try to make it back-to-back points finishes after claiming eighth at the Hockenheimring last month. “I’ve always loved Spa right from the early days of my career – it still feels mega with every lap you...
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