Will this first win be the opening of the floodgates and lead to a string of successes for Button? Or could he be another of F1’s one-win wonders?

Keith Collantine takes a look at F1’s famous duck-breaking drives.

The World Cup and Wimbledon may have been a disappointment, but Jenson Button has finally given us a British sporting success this summer.

He trounced the F1 field in challenging wet conditions yesterday, winning from an improbable 14^th on the grid.

Honda’s last Grand Prix win was also scored by a Briton – John Surtees who triumphed in the 1967 Italian Grand Prix.

But there’s no ignoring the fact it has taken Button a long time to achieve this win – 115 Grand Prix appearances, in fact. So is this the first of many, or will we eventually look back on it as a one-off?

Only two drivers took longer than Button to score their first wins, and both are still racing in F1 today.

Jarno Trulli won his only Grand Prix to date at the 119^th attempt. But that win at the ultra-glamorous Monaco Grand Prix wasn’t enough to keep him at the Renault team, who dropped him shortly afterwards.

Rubens Barrichello, Button’s team mate, took 125 attempts to win his first Grand Prix, which finally came at Germany in 2000.

He has gone on to win nine from 231 starts – but many of those wins came as ‘gifts’ while he was Michael Schumacher’s supporting driver at Ferrari from 2000-2005.

Of the drivers who took a long time to score their first win, Button will most want to emulate British hero Nigel Mansell. He won his first race in his sixth season and 75^th attempt at the 1985 European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch.

But that win marked Mansell’s coming of age. He won the next race at South Africa and five the next year. He finished runner-up in the championship three times before winning it in 1992.

Button will be hoping that Honda power is the thing to have in 2007 – just like it was for Mansell 19 years ago.

Racing round-up

Formula One, Hungarian Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso failed to score for the first time in 2006 at the Hungaroring when a loose wheel nut pitched his Renault into the barriers after he had led most of the race.

Luckily for Alonso title rival Michael Schumacher scored just a single point after he collided with Nick Heidfeld with only three laps remaining. Alonso’s championship lead is now down to ten points.

GP2, Hungary

Nelson Piquet Jnr took maximum points by winning both races, taking pole position for the first and setting the fastest lap. He reduced runaway championship leader Lewis Hamilton’s advantage to 11 points with four rounds left.

Champ Car World Series

Former F1 driver Cristiano da Matta was seriously injured in a bizarre accident in testing when he struck a deer at the Elkhart Lake circuit at over 90 mph.

Da Matta was treated for severe head injuries and will miss the rest of the season.