Tuesday February 1st, 2000

Williams Team's new star Jenson Button plans to familiarise himself with this year's Grand Prix circuits with the aid of video footage taken from onboard cameras last season.

The 20-year-old Englishman, who signed up to drive alongside Ralf Schumacher in Barcelona last week, is hoping that watching footage from events like Melbourne will enable him to learn the circuits quicker. "I have driven on quite a few of the European tracks but I haven't raced on any outside Europe," Button said on Sunday morning television show screened in the UK. "The best way is to watch races from car cameras from previous years."

Button, who was third in the 1999 British Formula 3 Championship, will make his F1 debut at the Australian Grand Prix on March 12.