First of all. What have you been doing since Turkey?

I came from Turkey to the UK and did a PR day on Tuesday here just really to get a few interviews out of the way before the grand prix. I flew home that night to Monaco and I have spent about a week in Monaco which was lovely. Training up in the hills with my trainer, just getting away from it all. Very relaxing. Then I was back here on Tuesday. I had a photo shoot on Tuesday and yesterday at Brackley doing simulator work and a few other things. Then I headed down to Mercedes Benz yesterday afternoon for a few hours to spend a bit of time there and see what was going on. It was the first time I have been there, so it was a nice experience and good to see all the people who have given us a great opportunity this year. Then last night I was camping here. It has been a pretty relaxed couple of weeks considering the situation we are in, so it is perfect really.

What's been the reception at places like Brixworth and Brackley?

Brackley is great. We have all been part of it all season. We have been together for a very long time, so nothing has really changed there. There are a few more smiles about the place. Brixworth was just a great experience and to get inside the engine and see the technical side of it which is a good experience. They have achieved so much over the last few years with McLaren and with us this season. They are doing a great job and it is good to sort of say a few words there as we haven't spent any time with Mercedes Benz this season. It was the first time we were at Brixworth, so it was a good experience and hopefully both of us can have a good race this weekend for them.

What are your feelings about racing here at Silverstone? Drivers really feel this is a very special circuit and don't want it to slip off the calendar. What are your thoughts about what is essentially your home grand prix?

It is a very special race. I think for both of us when we were learning how to drive in single seaters this was a place we enjoyed very much. It is your home grand prix, so it is always going to be very special. But also the British fans are fantastic. There are so many fans in Britain for motorsport and for Formula One. Last year was a sell out crowd and I am guessing it will be the same this year and you don't get that in many circuits around the world, especially the way the economy is at the moment. Hopefully we can put a good show on for them this weekend. This is a circuit that I love. It is a fantastic, fast flowing circuit like Spa and Suzuka. It is one of the true greats and it has been for the last few decades. It is a pity it won't be on the calendar next year. I think a lot of drivers will agree with me and a lot of fans will agree also. I just hope we have a British Grand Prix next year as it means a lot to us.

Your feelings about racing this weekend?

I come into this race confident with the package that I have. The last few races have been fantastic and it has been a dream start to the season. This is a circuit that I enjoy driving and I know my team-mate enjoys driving here a lot also, so he is going to be good competition this weekend. In Turkey we expected the Red Bulls to be very quick in the high speed turn eight. I don't think they had an advantage which was surprising. I am happy with what we have. We have got a little update aerodynamically, only small, but it's about the small parts. You just keep building on what you have and hope it is going in the right direction. We will have competition here but I am happy with what we have and I am confident in the car. We have just got to hope in a way that we have a better Friday than we have done in the last few races because even though the end result has been great, working from where we were is quite stressful and I think in that environment that you can make mistakes, so we have got to hope that we get a reasonable balance tomorrow, so we can get some good testing done and hope we get the balance right for the weekend.

Just looking at both your respective Formula One careers [Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button] one of you had success immediately and this year it has tailed off a bit. The other one didn't have success and finally has had success now. Talking about one another's career, would you have preferred yours to be different?

Well, I mean we have been given what we have been given and that's the way it is. You wouldn't change it for the world and even though I've been through a lot of tough times in the past, even before this season, I've always said that I think the decisions I have made or what I have had to deal with, I wouldn't change it as it makes it who you are. Now I have got the opportunity to show and to achieve with a very good team and a very good car. In a way it makes it very sweet for me but I am sure it is the same for Lewis, coming into Formula One and in his first couple of years achieving so much so early on. Not many drivers have been able to do that. I think I have been in Formula One for nine years now and eventually I feel ready to be winning races and I have the team that gives me the opportunity to fight for race victories almost every weekend we go to. I wouldn't change my career in the slightest and I am sure Lewis wouldn't but I will let him speak for himself.

You talked there about pushing to keep the British Grand Prix. What, practically, can you do in your position? Are you going to buy Silverstone or buy Donington?

We [Lewis and Jenson] both agree that we would love a British Grand Prix. We obviously want it to be at a good venue but having a British Grand Prix is the point that we're trying to push and it's not just us two sat here, I think it's the whole of Formula One. There are a lot of British people who work in Formula One on the racing side of things, on the journalism side of things, so to not have a British Grand Prix would be a real shocker for all of us involved and surprising, I think, for the fans, especially when we have packed out crowds at the races here. But it's not our decision but we would obviously be very disappointed if we didn't have a British Grand Prix on the 2010 calendar.

Last year at this same press conference, you challenged Lewis to do a triathlon and you said that this would be the only way I can be competitive this year. Looking back at what has happened, how does it feel, coming here as a championship leader, and if you would describe the difference and the feeling between last year and this year?

It's obviously a big change for me and for the whole team. Coming here last year we didn't expect to be getting points, let alone fighting for a podium position and definitely not the top step of the podium but I still enjoyed the weekend. It's always a nice feeling coming here because the fans do support you through the tough times as well as the good times. I still enjoyed my time at the British Grand Prix last year and we obviously had a bit of banter up here on stage but it was just a bit of fun. Yeah, a lot has happened in a season and that's the way Formula One is, it's up and down, up and down. It's about being strong through the difficult times – if they don't break you, they definitely will make you stronger and we've come back very strong this season and I'm leading the championship. For British motor sport, having a British champion sat up here, a British World Champion and a British driver who's leading the championship the next season I think is fabulous for the sport. It's great to be a part of that. The triathlon is in London but it should be fun. If you want to sponsor me, by the way, just a plug out there, I'm doing it for Make-A-Wish Foundation, which I'm a patron for and if you want to give some cash, it's justgiving.com/jensonbutton. Woo!

Officially, your team is out of the championship next season. Do you think it's possible for that situation to change before tomorrow's deadline?

Well, I don't think that's for us to discuss here, really. We're not the people who have been in the talks, the serious talks, anyway, and I think all the team principals and team owners have been very, very busy over the last few weeks in meetings and it would be unfair for us to comment on the situation at this time, I think.

But it will affect you…

Yes, it does but it also doesn't make any difference. We're not going to change anything by saying what we think here. The important thing is that we're involved in the discussions but not in front of cameras and not in front of you guys sat here because that doesn't help the situation at the moment.

Isn't what's happening this season bad publicity for Formula One because it shows that Formula One is principally a case of having a good car more than having a good driver?

Formula One hasn't changed over the last decade or so, or two decades. It's a team performance and when we stop talking about what percentage a driver is and what percentage a car is we can get on with the racing and concentrate on having fun and enjoying it. The car is a big part of it but it's a team effort, it's every single individual and when you win the World Championship you win it as a team and it's the same if you don't do very well, you lose it as a team, and that's the way it has been for many, many years. We all want to be in a good car but it's also for us to try and make that happen. It's taken me a long time but I eventually got there in the end. It's a great sport and when people turn the TV on, I think they look for good racing and there has been some good racing this year within the pack and I'm sure it's going to be as competitive throughout the season. I think it's also good that there are other teams involved now. For many years it's been Ferrari and McLaren and also Renault winning the World Championship and now there are other teams that are fighting at the front with those teams and I think that is good for the sport and I'm sure that over the next few years in motor racing, I'm sure those top teams are going to be there but they're going to include Brawn GP and they're going to include Red Bull and that's what the sport needs. We need a lot of teams that are fighting at the front that are competitive. It's no good just one team winning the World Championships year after year. I think it's great that there's so much competition out there, year on year.

Winning Monaco was obviously very special. Lewis was talking last week about winning the British Grand Prix in comparison with winning Monaco, he and Damon (Hill), and they both felt that this was the big one. Would you feel that, that winning the British Grand Prix would be even more special than the Monaco win?

If you look at it unemotionally it's ten points if you win here, it's like every other race. It's a very emotional weekend for a British driver. It would be very special to win my home Grand Prix. But to not put pressure on myself, the great thing is that I will leave this race leading the World Championship still, by 16 points at worst. That's the best way to look at it but it would be great to have a good race here but so much can happen. I'm just trying to stay relaxed at the moment.