"You can see the drivers struggling after a few laps with the graining, especially on the soft compound, " said Giancarlo Fisichella, a 13-year F1 veteran who switched to sports-car racing in 2009.
Button got his lucky break in the race when team-mate Rubens Barrichello, following close behind in second, and forming a barrier between Button and Raikkonen, suffered graining tyres 10 laps into the race.
He worked as a delivery boy, a lather boy, a lift boy and a bell boy before entering the housepainting trade, mastering the crafts of graining and marbling just in time to be enlisted as a boiler-stoker in the Second World War.