| A FURIOUS Jenson Button slammed team mate Jacques Villeneuve after a pit stop blunder with the BAR team. Button finished the race tenth, one place behind Villeneuve but claimed he could have finished higher, if the Canadian had not pitted on the same lap as Button, forcing the Brit to queue up behind him in the BAR pit for some fifteen seconds. "Jacques came in on my lap and completely ruined my race," Button told The Sun. "It cost me a hell of a lot of time - it was like doing two pit stops instead of one." Villeneuve was supposed to come in a lap before Button, but team principal David Richards said there were problems with the radio. "I was very annoyed," Button continued to rant. "I couldn't drive for another lap because I would have run out of fuel." "Jacques said sorry, but I'm not impressed," he concluded. The pair have been at logger-heads ever since Button joined the team this winter. Villeneuve claims not to be impressed by Button, because he has yet to prove himself of earn the 1997 Champion's respect. The Sun article, however, suggests Villeneuve played the pit-stop to out-psyche Button. It cites a BMW Williams team insider saying that Villeneuve played the same strategy against Frentzen when the pair raced for the Grove team. |