Jenson Button has revealed that he nearly made the switch from McLaren to riva൩ls Ferrari for the🐷 2013 Formula 1 season.

The 2009 world champion held talks with Ferrari about a possible move for 2013 and even had a contract lined up before he ultimat♐el🐲y decided to remain with McLaren.

Button ended up being partnered by Sergio Perez at the Woking squad for 2013 following Lewis Hamilton’s shock departure to Mercedes,ꦅ while Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa continued to drive at Ferrari.

“Eve▨ry driver would love to race for Ferrari at some🐓 point,” Button said in an interview with Motorsport News.

“There’s just something about that team, ev𒁏en this year [2020] it’s tough for them and tough for motorsport fans to see them where they are, but maybe they needed this to come back st🀅ronger.

“But I would love to have raced for Ferrari and there was a good possibility sort of eight years ago but it just didn’t materialiseꦅ at the end.

“Pretty much contracts were ready to go and it almost happened, but for many different reasons it didn’t an💞d, to be fair, I was probably better off where I was anyway at McLaren.”

Had the move come off, Button would have most likely become teammates with two-time world champioꦛn Alonso, who eventually joined him at McLaren when the team made its doomed switch to Honda engines for the 2015 campaign.

Button ultimately agreed on a new deal in 2012 to stay with McLar👍en, where he went on to race until retiringꩲ at the end of the 2016 season.

The Briton returned for a one-off🎃 appearance at the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix when he deputised for the Indy 500-bound Alonso, while his final F1 victory at the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix remains McLaren’s mostღ recent win in the sport.