Mansell tips Button to win at least once in '06.

1992 world champion Nigel Mansell has predicted that Jenson Button will win his first F1 grand prix this year.

Button has had a number of podiums to date, but despite having competed in 100 grand's prix, he has yet to stand on the top step of the podium.

"I've no doubt Jenson will get the monkey off his back this year," Mansell told BBC Sport Online. "By the end of the year he'll have won at least one race and hopefully a number of them."

Button has been fantastic in qualifying this season and was on pole for the Australian GP. However the races have been a different affair, and he had could only finish seventh at the San Marino GP on Sunday after pit-stop problems dropped him down the order.

"Getting pole this year in Australia was fabulous and obviously the car is quick," added Mansell. "But Honda's reliability has come into question and the set-up of the car is suspect in certain times of the race."

As for if Button can emulate Mansell and fellow British world champions, such as Damon Hill and James Hunt, the Grand Prix Masters star added that the court is still out on that front.

"Until he wins and wins consistently being a world champion is something else," concluded Mansell. "Do I think he could get the right package and have the right opportunity to be world champion, then yes. I hope he does it - it's about time we had another world champion in England. Jenson with the right car has got to get it together and I think a win should only be just around the corner - I hope sincerely for the fans that'll be the case. But he's like a number of F1 drivers - on his day and in certain parts of any race he's fantastic. He just needs to give it 100 per cent all of the time."