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F1: Team McLaren signs reigning World Champion Jenson Button

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Khatir Soltani
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British Formula 1 team Team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes signs reigning World Champion Jenson Button to multi-year deal.

The team will feature double World Champion driver line-up created as Jenson Button joins Lewis Hamilton.

On Wednesday, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes was delighted to announce the signing of the reigning World Champion Jenson Button to a multi-year deal.

He will be partnered by 2008 World Champion Lewis Hamilton, who will be embarking on his fourth consecutive season as a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver.

This unique partnership will mark:

The first time in Formula 1 history that a team has started the new season with a line-up featuring the most recent two successive World Champions

The first pairing of two British World Champions since Graham Hill [1962, 1968] partnered Jim Clark [1963, 1965] at Lotus in 1968





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