Jenson Button: A 'true superstar', but was he an F1 great?

Former world champion expects season finale in Abu Dhabi to be his final race as a Formula One driver

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Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is almost certain to be Jenson Button's last race in F1, marking the end of a 16-year career for the 2009 world champion.

The McLaren driver initially elected to take a one-year sabbatical in 2017, but it now seems he is unlikely to return to the cockpit after posting on Instagram that he was going into the season finale "with the mindset that it's my last race in F1".

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