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If
Formula One world champion Jenson Button has to help McLaren team mate
Lewis Hamilton’s title challenge in Brazil this weekend, it will be his
own decision.

The Briton, who won
the crown with Brawn GP at Interlagos last year, must win Sunday’s race
to have any chance of retaining it this year.

Button is fifth overall, 42 points behind Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and 21 adrift of Hamilton with two races remaining.

“I have a chance to
still win the world championship, it’s a very small chance, but because
it’s a small chance I’ve got to go hell for leather, give it all I can
and enjoy it,” he told Reuters.

“I’ve got to finish
first. You can’t finish second. It’s not like I’m racing one other guy,
I’m racing four other guys and if one has a bad race, maybe the others
won’t.” Red Bull’s Australian Mark Webber is second overall, 11 behind
Alonso, with his German team mate Sebastian Vettel 25 points off the
lead.

Button made clear
that, should he be out of the title reckoning and also in a position to
help his team mate, he would do so. But there would be no question of
surreptitious — and banned — ‘team orders’.

“I want to win the championship. I don’t want anyone else to win the championship,” said the 30-year-old.

“But if I suddenly
were to find myself in a position where I can’t win it, you are a team
and you do what you think is right…I will never be ordered to do
anything, but I will do what I think is right.

“I would not be
ordered. (team principal) Martin (Whitmarsh) knows I’m intelligent
enough to make my own decision, and the right decision.”

Webber situation

Button’s attitude contrasted to that of the Red Bull pairing, whose relationship has become increasingly strained.

Webber said on
Thursday that he felt the team favoured Vettel emotionally and
described his own title tilt as “inconvenient.” Button, far more
relaxed than this time last year and enjoying being out of the main
spotlight with all the burden of expectation, expressed sympathy for
the Australian.

“I think we’ve all
found ourselves in a situation where we don’t feel happy within a team,
where you don’t feel that you’re really wanted within that team,” said
the Briton, who was dropped by Renault in 2002 to make way for Alonso.

So yeah, it must be tough (for Webber).

“At my previous
team, for me it was so important to be involved with that team, and to
feel part of the team, and for the mechanics and engineers to actually
want you to be a part of that team, and be very sad to see you go,” he
said of Brawn.

“That is important to me, to know you are wanted.

“I had that there,
and I was worried that, moving teams, I wouldn’t have that, but I found
it very quickly and I feel very at home here,” continued Button.

“But not having
that must be tough, and I’m only going on what I read and hear what
Mark says, but he doesn’t look like he’s very loved there and that must
be tough and a difficult position to be in.” Pull Quote: I’m racing
four other guys and if one has a bad race, maybe the others won’t.