{"id":25025,"date":"2009-03-10T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/7265-there-was-no-plan-b-for-button-in-2009"},"modified":"2009-03-10T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:03:10","slug":"7265-there-was-no-plan-b-for-button-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/7265-there-was-no-plan-b-for-button-in-2009","title":{"rendered":"There was no &#8216;Plan B&#8217; for Button in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franz Tost insisted in a press conference on Monday that Jenson Button and Toro Rosso have never discussed teaming up in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>If a spokesperson for the 29-year-old driver stated that there were other options for Button following Honda&#8217;s withdrawal, the Toro Rosso chief denied the rumor that one of them was to replace Buemi with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab To be honest, Jenson was never an option for us, \u00bb said Tost, despite the fact that S\u00e9bastien Bourdais&#8217; confirmation was only announced recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab As far as I know, Jenson Button has reached an agreement with Honda, and therefore there have never been any negotiations with him on our part, \u00bb added the Austrian.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton who made a thunderous debut with Brawn GP during testing in Barcelona with the fourth fastest time out of 10 cars involved, seems to confirm Tost&#8217;s comments by admitting that his plan B for 2009 was not to be racing.<\/p>\n<p>He accepted a salary cut of more than 50% with Ross Brawn&#8217;s team to stay in the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab What would I do sitting at home? In five or six years, maybe, but that wasn&#8217;t my goal for now, \u00bb he clarified.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Monday, his father John as well as his teammate Rubens Barrichello were present in the stands of Barcelona to watch him on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franz Tost insisted in a press conference on Monday that Jenson Button and Toro Rosso have never discussed teaming up in 2009. 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