As a tribute to the late Boris Yeltsin, The Pontrieux Report decodes the Kremlin-speak from Jenson Button’s manager quoted in Autosport.
“Jenson is still supporting Honda,” translates as “By whining at any passing journalist about how rubbish the car is, Jenson is providing valuable feedback to the team.”
“Clearly, the team is not where it should be – but we’re not going to jump ship”, means “The team is having problems but I want to make it clear that the problems are nothing to do with Jenson and he is going to keep motivation levels high, by hanging around to point this out.”
“We’re not shopping around and I’m not talking to anyone at the moment.” translates as “When they saw us coming waving one of our worthless contracts, they slammed the door, put up the “Closed” sign up and ignored us shouting through the letter box.”
“There is no other team that can give us a better place to be,” means “I realise that Jenson is a busted flush and the best he can hope for after Honda is a spell with Red Bull Retirement or to beg on his knees for Dave Richards to take him on at Prodrive.”