"It's great that I've won after so long and that I don't have to do those
interviews any more where they say 'you've done 113 races without a win," said
Button.
"It's going to be, 'He's won his first race and looking forwards to the next
one,' which takes a lot of weight off my shoulders."
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello, a winner in Hungary for Ferrari in 2002, took
fourth place for Honda. Coulthard was fifth in a Red Bull and Toyota's Ralf
Schumacher sixth.
Kubica finished seventh on his debut for BMW Sauber but was ruled out after
his car was found to be two kilos underweight. That lifted Brazilian Felipe
Massa to seventh for Ferrari.
Hungary, so often providing one of the duller processional races on the
calendar, turned out to be a roller-coaster and the first of the season without
a Ferrari or Renault winner.
Schumacher, seven-times a world champion and winner of the last three races,
was lapped by Alonso after 25 laps but had fought back strongly as the
conditions changed.
"You can always say afterwards, 'Okay, we could have surrendered a spot or
two to get a few points.' But on the other hand, that's the way I am," said
Schumacher.
"You fight until it's over, until there's nothing left and nothing's spinning
anymore. Nevertheless, at the end of the day, we could have done things
differently."
Penalised two seconds in qualifying, like Alonso, Schumacher also had to pit
for a new front wing after a collision with Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella as
the Italian went past in the early stages.
WET RACE
The first wet race in years transformed a slow and twisty circuit, where
overtaking is usually a rare treat, into one that offered more passing
manoeuvres than anyone could have imagined.
Four of the last five winners in Hungary had come from pole position but not
this time with Raikkonen crashing into the back of tail ender Vitantonio
Liuzzi's Toro Rosso while lapping the Italian.
"I slowed down a bit to let him by, I was trying to be as helpful as
possible," said Liuzzi. "It was a misunderstanding, it was a shame that it
turned out this way."
