Jenson Button insists he is chasing the dream and not money in the wake of his stunning start to the current Formula One season.

Following his fifth win in six grands prix in taking the chequered flag at Monaco 11 days ago, Brawn GP chief executive Nick Fry then revealed he wanted to sign up the 29-year-old "for the rest of his career".

"It's mutual he would like to stay with the team, and after five race wins, we should be able to get something together," added Fry.

Button, though, admits he has had no contact with the Brackley team about a new deal since then, nor has he any desire to either until later in the season.

For now all that matters to Button is maintaining his 16-point lead in the drivers' standings, and ultimately going on to be crowned F1 world champion.

"I've read the articles, and that's about it," said Button on the stories suggesting he would double his current £3million per year deal with Brawn.

"Even after reading the articles I haven't spoken to anyone in the team about it because I'm not interested.

"I'm here to race. I don't want to talk about money, I don't want to talk about anything else that's irrelevant at the moment.

"I've got to concentrate on this weekend, and that's what I need to do for every race weekend I go to. I'm not thinking about money.

"I continued with this team because I thought the car would be competitive, and that's my only interest at the moment."

Button at least appreciates he could not be in a better position at present, adding: "I'm very happy here, as you can imagine, because I've won five out of six races.

"It's not something I'm going to talk to the team about until a lot later in the season.

"I'm having a great time, but I know it could end very quickly if you take your eye off the ball, and that's what I'm not going to do.

"I'm doing what I'm here to do, and that's win races. I'm leading the championship, so I've no interest in thinking about next year yet."

Button's dominance of the season to date has sparked fears amongst his fellow drivers that he could wrap up the title by the end of the European season in Italy in mid-September.