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Button is Big in Japan with Super GT title.

Jenson Button showed he still has it in him when together with teammate Naoki Yamamoto the finished third at Motegi to wrap up the GT500 title and thus becoming the first ‘rookie' to win the Japanese Super GT Championship in over a decade. Button's team, Kunimitsu Nissan had not won a title since 2011. Third place was enough to do the business on the day by a mere three points from TOM'S Lexus drivers Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa, the pair chased hard to the very end. For the 38-year-old Button, it was his first major title since winning the 2009 Formula 1 World Championship with Brawn GP. After the race at Motegi, he said, 'That was a tough race. They are never easy and that's what...
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