Button: I'll quit F1 if team orders return

Last Sunday's controversy in which Felipe Massa was forced to give up victory in the German Grand Prix in favour of Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso has blown F1 apart.

Opinions have been divided on whether the ban on team orders, introduced after the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix when Rubens Barrichello allowed Michael Schumacher to overtake and claim the win, should return.

F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone played on the team element surrounding the sport and insisted team principals should be allowed to make the decisions.

But the likes of Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes the sport is far healthier if drivers are allowed to compete and race against one another.

That is the kind of F1 that McLaren driver Button wants to be involved with, not the shams that unfolded in Austria and Germany.

"I wouldn't be interested in racing in F1 if, from the first race, you know there was the possibility of being a number one or number two driver. What's the point?" Button said.

"You're here to win, to be the best, and you should have equal opportunity to the next guy that's driving the same car.

"He should also get every opportunity, otherwise it's not a drivers' sport any more.

"Formula One is a team sport, but when you cross the finishing line you are the person who wins the drivers' championship.

"We have the constructors' and we have the drivers' and that's the way Formula One is.

"So for me, if it wasn't down to the individual, I wouldn't be interested in racing any more."

Button was forced to settle for ninth best time in Friday's practice for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

He was over 1.5 seconds adrift of Sebastian Vettel, who was half a second quicker than Alonso and Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber as he chased his seventh pole of the season. Massa was fourth and Lewis Hamilton sixth.

Meanwhile, Force India have been fined 5,000 euros (£4,200) after their second tyre mix-up in the space of just six days.

The team were reprimanded by the stewards at the end of the German Grand Prix for fixing tyres allocated to drivers Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi to the wrong cars.

And, during Friday's first practice session, the team fitted a set of tyres to the car of test and reserve driver Paul di Resta that were allocated for final practice, qualifying and the race.

As that was against regulations, and came so soon after being warned, the stewards were left with no alternative but to issue a fine.