Button to land Toro Rosso seat?

Franz Tost, the Toro Rosso team principal, is known to have a high opinion of the 28 year old Brit Jenson Button having worked with him when he drove for the Williams BMW squad during his formula one debut season in 2000. Sources close to the Faenza based team suggested today that Button could be invited by Tost to test one of their STR02s, in which Sebastian Vettel won the rain soaked Italian grand prix at Monza in September, at the three day test session scheduled for Spain's Jerez circuit from December 10-12.

Button, who took time out to thank the Honda workforce at Brackley today after the Japanese team said it was pulling out of the sport, would not be drawn into speculation about his future plans, though he did say Honda's withdrawal "came as much of a shock to me as everyone else".