Button to soldier on despite pain.

Brit Jenson Button has promised that he will race at the Austrian Grand Prix in two weeks time despite suffering from shoulder problems.

The Benetton driver told the BBC: "I will race in Austria - I will be there. I am sure the problem will have cleared up by then which is the main thing. I had an injection in my shoulder about 10 days ago because I have had a problem with it since Malaysia."

"Normally the pain should have gone away by now, but it hasn't although it is getting easier and my physio has done a lot of work on it. In practice and qualifying it's not too bad, but it does hurt when I get into a race situation. It hasn't been helped because places like Imola are anti-clockwise circuits. I was in a lot of pain after Imola."

He added that despite an appalling start to the year he and Giancarlo Fisichella and the Benetton team would just have to keep trying. He said: "I know I am repeating myself, but we just have to hang in there and be patient even though the only thing we want to do is win. From my own point of view I am constantly gaining experience, even if it is towards the rear of the field at the moment."