Button not jumping ship – manager

(GMM) Jenson Button is not going to jump ship despite Honda's disastrous start to the 2007 season.

That is the insistence of the 27-year-old's manager, Richard Goddard, amid numerous voices urging the Briton to give up after his nearly five years with the team delivered only a single grand prix win.

Brackley based Honda's turbulent fortunes culminated this year with the dreadful RA107; flawed aerodynamically and easily the least competitive of the manufacturer-backed cars.

But Goddard said of Button: "We're not shopping around and I'm not talking to anyone at the moment.

"There is no other team that can give us a better place to be," he told the British print magazine Autosport.

Button signed a multi-year contract with Honda after the famous contractual tussles with Williams in 2004 and 2005.

He argued at the time that F1 drivers, with limited careers, must be "selfish"; a sentiment backed by friend David Coulthard who said Button should be "ruthless" in finding a winning home in pitlane.

1996 world champion Damon Hill agreed earlier this year that there is a "bit missing" at Honda.