The best of Button: A look at Jenson Button's top 10 Formula 1 races

For a while it looked as though his long, distinguished F1 career was poised to come to a close, but Jenson Button has now been re-signed by McLaren for the 2015 season to form a mouthwatering partnership with Fernando Alonso.

So, to mark the contract renewal which will take his F1 career into a 16th season, here’s a look a ten of Jenson’s best races from across his career to date driving for Williams, Benetton, Renault, BAR, Honda, Brawn and McLaren.

2000 Brazilian GP, Interlagos

Qualified: 9th; Finished: 6th

In only the second race of his F1 career, a 20-year-old Button picked up his first point in Brazil to become at the time the youngest points scorer in the sport's history. It is worth noting that back in 2000 points only went down as far as sixth place, making the achievement all the more impressive.

Having started ninth, Button made a one-stop strategy work to come through the field and take the final point with the drive capped by a great late-braking overtaking move on Jos Verstappen at Turn Ten.

2004 Malaysian GP, Sepang International Circuit

Qualified: 6th; Finished: 3rd

Given Button has a one-in-five strike rate for podiums in F1, it’s easy to forget that it actually took him four years and 68 starts before he climbed the rostrum in the sport. That he achieved it at Sepang was all the more fitting given two years before he had been on course for third place at the same circuit only for a mechanical problem to slow his Renault on the final lap. Fast forward to 2004 and fortune was on his side as his BAR survived contact with former team-mate Jarno Trulli at the first corner and he went on to beat Ferrari’s Rubens Barrichello to third place by two seconds.

With the monkey off his back, Button wouldn’t have to wait long for a second podium visit – it came just a fortnight later in Bahrain. In fact, eight more would follow in a highly-impressive year.

2004 German GP, Hockenheim

Qualified: 3rd, started 13th due to engine change penalty; Finished: 2nd

One of those ten 2004 podiums came at Hockenheim, a venue at which Button has habitually performed well during his career. The Briton’s BAR team had been competitive relative to Ferrari and Williams over a single lap, but the hard work of qualifying third was undone by ten-place grid penalty for an unscheduled Honda engine change.

However, Button wasn’t to be deterred and on race day the Briton scythed his way through the field, with the culmination of his fightback a long-running duel with Renault’s Fernando Alonso as the pair diced over second place. It was Button who ultimately won out, 15 laps from home, with an incisive move down the inside of the Spaniard. His drive was made all the more creditable – and memorable a decade later – by the fact that for the last 20 laps of the race he was often forced to drive one handed to hold upright a crash helmet which had worked its way loose.

2006 Hungarian GP, Hungaroring

Qualified: 4th; Started 14th due to engine change penalty. Finished: 1st

Button showed his wet-weather prowess to pick up his first F1 victory despite starting in 14th place. The Briton had qualified in fourth, but had been relegated to the middle of the grid after an engine change. The race started in wet conditions and with cars sliding off the circuit at seemingly every corner – including Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher – Button kept hi