Button claims maiden win 

Briton Jenson Button raced through the rain to seize an emotional first Formula One victory in a Hungarian Grand Prix thriller on Monday. 

"Over the last 10 laps, I just didn't want the race to end," said the Honda driver, a winner at last after one of the longest waits in the sport's history. "I wanted it to go on forever, I was loving it.

"What a day. It's been amazing. Coming through from 14th place, I couldn't have done it a better way." 

While the 26-year-old celebrated success at the 113th attempt, taking full advantage of others' misfortune to get a monkey off his back on a chaotic afternoon, Renault's world champion Fernando Alonso crashed out while leading. 

Alonso's smile returned when Ferrari's Michael Schumacher retired three laps from the end with broken steering after banging wheels with Nick Heidfeld's BMW Sauber. 

That would have left the Spaniard still 11 points clear in the championship with five races remaining but the later disqualification of Poland's Robert Kubica lifted Schumacher to eighth place and a vital point. 

Alonso has 100 with Schumacher on 90. In the constructors' standings, Renault are just seven ahead of Ferrari. 

Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa was second for McLaren, his first podium finish, after pole sitting team mate Kimi Raikkonen crashed out. Heidfeld was third. 

Alonso's car slewed and skidded into the tyre barriers with 18 laps to go while in the lead after a breathtaking charge from 15th place on the grid in wet conditions that caught out plenty of others. 

Initial reports suggested a drive shaft failure. 

"What an incredible race," said Alonso, who showed his mettle by overtaking Schumacher round the outside of turn five in lap four despite starting with a heavy fuel load.  

Button's win, from 14th on the grid after a 10-place penalty for an engine change on Sunday, was Honda's first as a constructor since 1967. 

The first British winner of a grand prix since David Coulthard for McLaren in Australia in 2003, Button finished 30.8 seconds clear of de la Rosa. 

By coincidence, the last race winner for Honda was also a Briton - former champion John Surtees in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. 

"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.  

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."