Championship leader Jenson Button says that he is now at a team that "knows what winning is like" in the McLaren squad, adding that his first two grand prix wins for the team early in 2010 have yet to properly sink in.
Button has had an incredible start to his life at McLaren, winning the Australian and Chinese Grands Prix with some canny tactical calls, despite being expected to struggle to assert himself in his new team.
And although he tipped his hat to the Honda/Brawn team for the way they "made him as a driver", he explained that he felt that he was now with a team that was built for success.
"The difference at McLaren is that they know what winning is like, and they've done a lot of it over the last couple of decades," he grinned earlier on Wednesday.
"Whereas Honda hadn't, as a team, with engines they had, but not as a team. It was different in that respect."
He added: "With McLaren you know that pretty much every year they race, they're going to be fighting for the championship. If they're not then they've done something seriously wrong.
"Whereas most teams in the pitlane, I'm not saying that they can't fight for championships, but they're not as used to it as this team.
"But you're never going to take anything away from Honda and Brawn, because those two teams have really made me as a person and as a driver."
He also admitted that he wasn't yet able to fully appreciate the significance of his two early wins for the long-time frontrunning team.
"I think it will in the future, more than now," Button said when asked if his wins for a historic team were worth more than his Brawn GP title.
"Being part of the team I think it's very different to when you look back on your career, and you look back at pictures of you in McLaren overalls. When I look back it will make a bigger difference.
"At the moment I've just had my head down, focusing, at every race we get to because it's been non-stop."
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