LONDON: Formula One champion Jenson Button cannot expect to cash in from the Mercedes takeover of Brawn even though the team wants him to stay, Brawn chief executive Nick Fry said on Monday.

"We've had discussions with Jenson on what we think is a sensible salary and this is not going to change anything in that respect," Nick Fry told BBC radio after the takeover was announced.

"I hope Jenson will be with us next season, we've worked together for a good few years now and succeeded in winning a world championship together," he said. "We want Jenson to be with us but we have to recognize that F1 is not divorced from the rest of the world. We work within a budget and if we spend the money in one area, we can't spend it in another."