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Jensen Button finally ended his long wait for a first F1 win in memorable style at the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix,

coming through from 14th on the grid to win a chaotic and rare rain-affected

race at the Hungara Ring. As we'll explore, there was more to this victory than just sheer

good fortune and beyond Button's eye-bulging celebrations in Park Fermay, this was a race with

plenty of other storylines, including an escalation in what was becoming an increasingly

tense championship battle

between Renault's Fernando Alonzo and Ferrari's Michael Schumacher.

So joining me, Glenn Freeman, to look back on everything going on in F1, around the time of

this race from F1's V8 era, plus all the action that took place once the lights went out on

the Sunday, are Ed Straw and Scott Mitchell, who will hopefully avoid turning this episode of Bring Back V10s into a

takeover for the Race F1 podcast where you can normally hear them together. So Ed, I will come to

you first basically to tell you not to default into hosting the show and asking Scott questions

about F1 in 2023. When you think of the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Well, it wasn't a race I saw live, because I was racing an MX5 at Snetterton at the time. But what I remember about it, I think I'd probably watched the highlights in the evening, is obviously I was at autosport at the time and the wait for Button's

first win because obviously a British driver doing well on the cover is always popular and

he'd had mantle and he'd had Hill and Button had been around for kind of years and everyone

was waiting for that breakthrough and so it was almost almost a feeling of relief that

finally that waiting for it to actually happen because it had been

planned for for years had finally come through and the cover line was he's done it exclamation mark

for that particular mag so that's what i always remember that it was just this thing that had been

waited for so long and it wasn't so much uh there wasn't really a celebration or anything it was just

all right finally that's out of the way so it was it was slightly unusual experience that that particular

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