Newly crowned world champion Jenson Button returned home on Tuesday saying he wanted to stay with the Brawn Formula One team next season and will discuss a new deal within the next few days.
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Button's fifth place finish at Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix secured his first world title and also first for the team created by Ross Brawn.
Arriving back in Britain, Button said Tuesday he preferred to stay with the English-based team even though winning the title had given him more bargaining power.
"I'm not really striving to be looking for a new team that can pay me a big amount of money. That's not what I'm about," he said. "I just want to go and win races again.
"I want to be with Brawn. We just haven't discussed it yet."
The 29-year-old British driver, who won the title with a race to spare, had won only one F1 race in eight seasons before his long-awaited triumph. He won the Hungarian GP with Honda in 2006 but, winning six of the first seven races of the 2009 season in the Brawn car, opened up a big lead in the championship.
Button says he will spend the next few days enjoying winning the title. He said he and Brawn had little chance to talk about next season, concentrating instead on winning this year's championship.
"But now we can sit down and discuss it a bit more. We've just achieved our first goal which is to be world champion," he said. "We're going to enjoy this moment very much. I'm not going to think about next year for a few days. But then we'll start talks about next season. You always want more and achieving the world championship is a great feeling."