From GMM
Even in the midst of a championship battle, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello are both reportedly not sure about their future in the Brawn team.
With two wins in three races, this is not been enough for Rubens Barrichello to secure a definite future at the Brawn team.
The British team makes no secret of wanting to keep championship leader Jenson Button on board for 2010, but as for the longest-serving driver in F1 history, chief executive Nick Fry answered at Monza: "We'll see. We're very much concentrating on each race now and they are both doing a brilliant job. Let's leave it at that for the moment," he added.
Now the Daily Mail and Sun newspapers in Britain report that, after Jenson Button having agreed to a multi-million pay cut before the start of the season, the 29-year-old driver now wants his money back before signing for 2010.
The Sun quoted a source as saying that Brawn's first counter-offer in monetary terms was "derisory".
Those reports coincide with an article in Britain's Telegraph that says Nico Rosberg has "agreed a deal" to move from Williams to Brawn next year.
The report said both Button and Barrichello are candidates to exit the team to make room for the 24-year-old German, who is strongly favoured by Mercedes-Benz, and that the German carmaker "has never shown much interest in signing Button".
Team boss Ross Brawn has suggested previously that Button alongside Barrichello, who is 37, is a lineup that would serve the Brackley squad well beyond November's Abu Dhabi finale.
Ross Brawn insisted that the driver question for next year is still open. "It's still to be decided. We're working on it. We've other things we have to sort out and then the drivers will come after that."
The reports also claim that Button and his management have complained to Brawn about a lack of cooperation from Barrichello's side of the garage, as the outcome of the 2009 title comes down to a straight fight between the teammates.
After Monza, team boss Ross Brawn made a point about ensuring the 2009 showdown would be an "open" fight between his drivers, while Button and Barrichello also referred to the forthcoming free exchange of information when speaking with reporters after the Italian GP.
David Coulthard wrote in a newspaper column: "You would have to be mad to think they (the drivers) would not hold a little bit (of information) back; a snatched conversation with an engineer here, a strategy to eke an extra couple of tenths there.
"That is the way it should be and Ross knows that," the F1 veteran added.
Even in the midst of a championship battle, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello are both reportedly not sure about their future in the Brawn team.
With two wins in three races, this is not been enough for Rubens Barrichello to secure a definite future at the Brawn team.
The British team makes no secret of wanting to keep championship leader Jenson Button on board for 2010, but as for the longest-serving driver in F1 history, chief executive Nick Fry answered at Monza: "We'll see. We're very much concentrating on each race now and they are both doing a brilliant job. Let's leave it at that for the moment," he added.
Now the Daily Mail and Sun newspapers in Britain report that, after Jenson Button having agreed to a multi-million pay cut before the start of the season, the 29-year-old driver now wants his money back before signing for 2010.
The Sun quoted a source as saying that Brawn's first counter-offer in monetary terms was "derisory".
Those reports coincide with an article in Britain's Telegraph that says Nico Rosberg has "agreed a deal" to move from Williams to Brawn next year.
The report said both Button and Barrichello are candidates to exit the team to make room for the 24-year-old German, who is strongly favoured by Mercedes-Benz, and that the German carmaker "has never shown much interest in signing Button".
Team boss Ross Brawn has suggested previously that Button alongside Barrichello, who is 37, is a lineup that would serve the Brackley squad well beyond November's Abu Dhabi finale.
Ross Brawn insisted that the driver question for next year is still open. "It's still to be decided. We're working on it. We've other things we have to sort out and then the drivers will come after that."
The reports also claim that Button and his management have complained to Brawn about a lack of cooperation from Barrichello's side of the garage, as the outcome of the 2009 title comes down to a straight fight between the teammates.
After Monza, team boss Ross Brawn made a point about ensuring the 2009 showdown would be an "open" fight between his drivers, while Button and Barrichello also referred to the forthcoming free exchange of information when speaking with reporters after the Italian GP.
David Coulthard wrote in a newspaper column: "You would have to be mad to think they (the drivers) would not hold a little bit (of information) back; a snatched conversation with an engineer here, a strategy to eke an extra couple of tenths there.
"That is the way it should be and Ross knows that," the F1 veteran added.