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Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won the inaugural Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit here Saturday.
“We did it,” Vettel screamed on the team radio as he took the victory lap after Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar waved the chequered flag.
McLaren-Mercedes’ Jenson Button finished second followed by Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.
Force India’ Adrian Sutil was ninth while the only Indian driver in the race, Narain Karthikeyan, finished 17th for Hispania.
(Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton held off his McLaren team mate Jenson Button to win Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix and jump to the top of the Formula One drivers’ championship.
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In a repeat of the last race in Turkey, Hamilton crossed the line just a few seconds ahead of his fellow-Briton to leapfrog Red Bull’s Australian Mark Webber and Button at the top of the standings.
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso finished third to join the two McLaren drivers on the podium while Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel was fourth and Webber fifth after a thrilling 70-lap race.
Hamilton’s second win in a row took him from third to first place in the championship with a total of 109 points. Button remained second on 106 while Webber dropped to third on 103 ahead of Alonso (94) and Vettel (90).
While there were no major crashes the race, back on the program after being left off last year, lived up to its reputation as one of the most enthralling races on the Formula One calendar.
Five different drivers held the lead as teams were forced into a strategic battle to keep their tires from falling apart on the street circuit.
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(Reuters) – Britain’s Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix in a McLaren one-two with team mate Jenson Button on Sunday.
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Hamilton’s second win in a row, from pole position in Montreal, sent him top of the championship standings after eight races. Spain’s Fernando Alonso finished third for Ferrari.
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June 13 (Reuters) – Britain’s Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix in a McLaren one-two with team mate Jenson Button on Sunday.
Hamilton’s second win in a row, from pole position in Montreal, sent him top of the championship standings after eight races. Spain’s Fernando Alonso finished third for Ferrari.
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London, June 4(ANI): Red Bull Formula One racing drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber have had clear-the-air talks following Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix ‘disaster’ collision.
The pair met with team bosses at their headquarters in Milton Keynes, and Vettel made the statement that both drivers are happy to continue to work together, The Sun reports.
The crash, a reprise of a collision between the two in Japan three years ago, came on the 40th lap when Vettel attempted to overtake Webber on the inside and then turned right into him.
Vettel spun out of the race, while Webber went on to take third place behind the McLaren pair of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.
Red Bull principal Christian Horner said the crash, which robbed them of a one-two finish, was simply an “unnecessary” racing accident, and added that all factions of the team believed both drivers were equally guilty of not giving each other enough room.
“Ultimately we win as a team and we lose as a team and on Sunday we lost as a team, as a result of our two drivers having an incident. Having looked at all the information it”s clear that it was a racing accident that shouldn”t have happened between two team-mates,” Horner said. (ANI)
(Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton returned to the top of the Formula One podium for the first time this season on Sunday with a smile of delight that only rubbed salt in Red Bull’s wounds.
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The 2008 world champion, without a victory since September, led McLaren team mate and champion Jenson Button in a one-two finish in Turkey after his Red Bull rivals collided in front of him.
While Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel blamed each other, Hamilton put on a display of harmony afterwards by embracing Button and hugging his team mate’s father before spraying the champagne.
The two Britons had also jousted on track, fighting hard for the lead without putting a wheel out of place or banging into each other.
Button offered his immediate congratulations over the team radio: “That was excellent, well done Lewis,” said the older Briton, who has already won twice this season.
“Me and Jenson had a good little battle,” said the 25-year-old Hamilton of his 12th career win. “He got me on the outside into turn 13 and then fortunately I was able to get him back into turn one and so that was definitely unexpected.
FAIR BATTLE
“But a really fair battle with him and a great result for the team. Our second one-two. I think we truly deserved it and I want to dedicate this win to my dad. It’s his 50th birthday tomorrow. Perfect way for him to celebrate.”
The only jarring point of the afternoon came when a questioner asked Hamilton at the post-race news conference whether he was now back.
“I don’t think I was ever gone,” he said.
“I have just been a little unfortunate up until now and I think bit by bit myself and the team have just worked very hard to chip away.
“Yesterday we qualified second. We knew that was just one step we needed to make. They made it very tough for us but we put up a good fight.”
Hamilton was right behind the Red Bulls when they collided 18 laps from the finish and he could scarcely believe his luck.
“It was great to watch, it was like an action movie in HD or 3D; it was fantastic,” said the Englishman, now third in the standings and nine points off Webber’s lead.
Hamilton also had his American singer girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger with him at a race for the first time this year and is sure to encourage her to come along more often.
“I wouldn’t say no to it,” he said when asked whether she was his good luck charm.
“Every time she seems to come I seem to win. I think it was Monaco 2008 she came, Hungary I won and Singapore (last year), so she is definitely a little bit lucky for me I think.”
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Istanbul, May 29(ANI): Red Bull Formula One racing driver Mark Webber on Saturday claimed his third straight pole position of the season, when he clocked the fastest time in qualifying for Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix.
Webber lapped the Istanbul Park circuit in one minute 26.295 seconds to secure his place at the front of the grid ahead of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton.
In making it three pole positions in a row, Webber became the first Australian to achieve the feat since Sir Jack Brabham in 1960 and the first driver in F1 since Ferrari’s Felipe Massa three years ago, The BBC reports.
The 33-year-old Australian has now claimed four poles this season, while the Red Bull team has taken all seven.
Webber’s team-mate Sebastian Vettel was third fastest, with reigning world champion Jenson Button fourth in the second McLaren.
Seven-time champion Michael Schumacher in his Mercedes finished fifth, ahead of Nico Rosberg in the other Mercedes, Renault’s Robert Kubica and Massa. (ANI)
REUTERS – Selected statistics for Sunday’s Turkish Formula One Grand Prix at the Istanbul Park circuit:
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WINS
Mark Webber’s victory in Monaco was his second in a row and fourth of his career. Red Bull have now won nine races in Formula One and three out of six this season.
The last driver to win three successive races was world champion Jenson Button with Brawn last year.
The last Australian to win three in a row was Alan Jones in 1980/1981 (last two of 1980 and first of 1981).
Ferrari have won 211 times while McLaren are the second most successful team with 166 victories. Williams have 113 wins.
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POLE POSITION
Red Bull have started every race this season on pole position (Sebastian Vettel 3, Mark Webber 3). The record of 15 in a season is held jointly by McLaren and Williams.
Webber is the only driver to have won from pole position this season, and has done so in the last two races (Spain and Monaco).
The last team to take seven poles in a row was Ferrari in 2000-2001. Ferrari have not been on pole since the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix.
The last driver to take three successive poles was Ferrari’s Felipe Massa in 2007.
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CHAMPIONSHIP
Four drivers have led the championship in six races this season – Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, Massa, Button and Webber.
Webber is the first Australian to top the standings since Jones in 1981.
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FRONT ROW
Red Bull have started the last 10 races with at least one car on the front row.
Despite his two wins, championship leader Jenson Button has not started on the front row since Turkey last June.
McLaren last started on the front row in Abu Dhabi last November.
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TURKEY
In five Turkish Grands Prix, the race has only once not been won by the driver starting on pole position. That was Button who won with Brawn last year after starting in second place.
Brazilian Massa has the best record at the track, with three wins in a row.
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QUALIFYING
Two drivers have yet to qualify ahead of their team mates this season: Renault’s Russian rookie Vitaly Petrov and Virgin’s Brazilian rookie Lucas di Grassi.
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POINTS
Webber and Massa are the only drivers to have scored points in every race.
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MILESTONE
Sunday’s race will be the 800th Formula One grand prix that Ferrari have taken part in, the first being the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix.
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London, May 21(ANI): Reigning Formula One champion Jenson Button believes that his race for the championship title could be over in Turkey, if the Red Bull team romp away with the silverware yet again.
Button is currently fourth in the championship standings behind Red Bull’s Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, and Ferarri”s Fernando Alonso.
The circuit in Istanbul should suit McLaren’s aero strengths, but if Red Bull dominates again after their 1-2 at the Monaco Grand Prix last weekend, it could spell disaster for the reigning champion, The Mirror reports.
Button trails Webber by eight points, but said: “This team have the resources, the manpower and the passion to succeed and to chase, and this is what they will do.”
“We’ve had a couple of issues in the last two races with reliability and mistakes, but we have to put those behind us now and focus on the next race in Turkey. We’ve got to come with a stronger car, and we can”t make any mistakes,” he added.
The Red Bull drivers are favourites to win the title this year, with the team already leading the constructors’ championship, 20 points ahead of Ferrari.
They have consistently out-paced others till now in the season, claiming pole position for all six races. (ANI)
London, May 21(ANI): Reigning Formula One champion Jenson Button has been dismissed as a title threat by his main rivals Red Bull.
Button has dropped from first to fourth in the championship standings behind Red Bull’s Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel.
Red Bull claims that Button’s McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso are the only men to fear.
“There are two people we fear for this world title. They are Alonso, because he is at his absolute peak, and Hamilton,” The Sun quoted Helmut Marko, Red Bull adviser, as saying.
“What the others are doing doesn’t bother us so much,” he added.
The Red Bull drivers are favourites to win the title this year, with the team already leading the constructors’ championship, 20 points ahead of Ferrari.
They have consistently out-paced others till now in the season, claiming pole position for all six races. (ANI)
London, May 20 (ANI): Formula One champion Jenson Button, who is trailing this year in drivers competition, has warned that his team’s one more mistake will wreck their title bid.
The Formula One champ has followed teammate Lewis Hamilton in urging McLaren to sort things out.
Button slumped from first to fourth in the standings when a mechanic left a cooling bung in his side pod as he went to the grid in Monaco, causing his engine to blow early in the race.
“Lewis and I have failed to finish in one race. The whole team has got to make sure that’s the only time this year we fail to score points,” The Sun quoted Button, as saying.
“I think we’ve seen all the top teams make small mistakes so far this year. But those small errors can sometimes have bigger consequences,” he added. (ANI)
London, May 18 (ANI): Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton has warned his team to sort the mess out, after McLaren was swept from the top of the drivers and constructors championships by the Red Bulls.
Hamilton and teammate Jenson Button’s challenge for title glory has been hit by a series of reliability problems.
Button slumped from top of the drivers standings to fourth after his engine blew up in Monaco on Sunday, The Sun reports.
Button is now eight points behind of race winner Mark Webber with Hamilton at seventh position.
Hamilton said: “We’ve under-performed. We’ve a big gap to make up. I doubt whether we can catch up with them by the next race. It’s not impossible but not likely. It’s up to me and Jenson to go in and really push the guys and get them on it.”
“We have to keep stressing to them they have to make that step forward. But they are under no illusions we have a big gap to make up.
“It’s too easy for Red Bull at the moment. They weren’t even pushing in the race. It’s not that it was scary but it was just taking the mickey a little bit,” the paper quoted him, as saying.
Hamilton fears it could take until the British Grand Prix on July 11 before he and Button can trouble Red Bull.
“I’m hoping by Silverstone we will be able to challenge them. Just imagine me and Jenson with a one-two. We’re fired up – don’t worry about that. I think we’re doing an exceptional job considering our true pace. We’re punching a bit above our weight. I still reckon we can win both championships. We”re the best team,” he said. (ANI)
Monte Carlo, May 15 (DPA) Mark Webber of Red Bull will start from pole position in the Monaco Grand Prix after holding off the challenge of Renault’s Robert Kubica to finish fastest in Saturday’s qualifying session.
The Australian, who also won last week’s Spanish GP, clocked 1 minute 13.826 seconds for the 3.340-kilometre street circuit to grab his third pole of the season and fourth overall.
Kubica will start from second on the grid after registering a time of 1:14.120 minutes, followed by Sebastian Vettel in the second Red Bull and Ferrari’s Felipe Massa.
Red Bull have now claimed top spot on the grid for all six races so far this season while Renault engines occupy the top three places for Sunday’s race.
‘Today’s lap just all came together, nice clean exits,’ said Australia’s Webber.
‘Three Renault engines and to get pole at Monaco is a nice feeling.’
Kubica was fastest in the final free practice session but had to yield to Webber’s superior pace in qualifying.
‘This was a good effort for us, the team and myself,’ said the Pole, adding that he thought the result was the best his team could have expected.
‘So far, so good. When you are so close it’s better to finish first but we have to be happy.’
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton had to be satisfied with fifth place while team-mate and championship leader Jenson Button qualified down in eighth spot behind Mercedes pair Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher.
Meanwhile, Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso will have to start from the pit-lane after crashing out in final free practice earlier in the day.
The two-time world champion crashed into the barriers at Massenet 23 minutes into the hour-long session and was unable to repair the damage to his car in time to register a lap time in qualifying.
Defending world champion Button leads the 2010 standings with 70 points from Alonso (67) and Vettel (60) after five of 19 season races.
‘Around here it counts a lot to have driveability,’ said Vettel.
‘I’m looking forward to tomorrow, it’s a long race and lots of things can happen.’
Australian Mark Webber looked forward to picking up the baton from compatriot and Formula One great Jack Brabham after putting his Red Bull on pole position for Sunday’s showcase Monaco Grand Prix.
The 33-year-old’s second pole in the space of a week continued his team’s stranglehold on the top slot, with Renault-powered Red Bull chalking up six out of six this season.
Webber secured it by three tenths of a second from Poland’s Robert Kubica in a Renault, with Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel pushed into third place in Saturday’s qualifying at the harbourside circuit.
“The first lap went ok, I brushed the Armco (barriers) pretty hard at the start of the second sector…I finished that one and then went for another. It just all came together,” said the Australian, winner in Spain from pole last weekend.
The pole at the most evocative race in Formula One was the fourth of Webber’s career and the first at Monaco by an Australian since triple world champion Jack Brabham in 1967.
Brabham, now the oldest surviving champion at 84, also took his first F1 win in Monaco in 1959 — the only time an Australian has won on the unforgiving streets of the Mediterranean principality.
“I wouldn’t be here without Jack Brabham,” said Webber, reminded of the fact. “My Dad followed Jack when he was a young boy and that started I suppose the dream in the Webber household.
“Jack is an absolute legend of the sport and he’s been very good to me over the years…of course it’s an honour to get the pole today but it would be the biggest highlight of my career if I can join him tomorrow.”
ALONSO ABSENT
Ferrari’s Brazilian Felipe Massa completed the second row in fourth place.
His team mate Fernando Alonso, a two times Monaco winner, watched qualifying from the garage after wrecking his car in final practice. The Spaniard, second in the championship behind McLaren’s Jenson Button, will start from the pit lane.
“This is the worst possible place to have to start from, given that overtaking is always problematic,” said Alonso.
“It was my mistake but it was also very unlucky, because with an impact at 90 (kph) you don’t normally write off a chassis.”
World champion Button, last year’s winner on the metal-fenced streets with Brawn GP, just sneaked through to the third and final phase of qualifying and secured eighth slot on the grid.
The Briton was unhappy with Massa however, accusing the Brazilian of impeding him.
“He backed off to get a clear lap for the next lap and he cost me time, so what happened can’t be any clearer. I don’t know what he was thinking,” he said. “He obviously wasn’t looking in his mirrors…he blatantly slowed me down.”
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, the 2008 winner, qualified fifth with Germany’s Nico Rosberg alongside for Mercedes and back in front of team mate Michael Schumacher — who said the younger German had also cost him a quick lap.
Schumacher, a five times winner in Monaco and making a comeback at the age of 41 and after three years out, qualified seventh.
Fears that qualifying could be crash-strewn and chaotic, with three much slower new teams on the track and expanding the field to 24 cars since last year’s race, proved unfounded.
The only casualty was Renault’s Russian Vitaly Petrov, who slewed into the barriers at Ste. Devote in the second session and starts 14th.
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Australian Mark Webber dreamed of emulating compatriot and Formula One great Jack Brabham on Saturday after putting his Red Bull on pole position for the showcase Monaco Grand Prix.
The 33-year-old’s second pole in the space of a week continued his team’s stranglehold on the top slot, with Renault-powered Red Bull chalking up six out of six races this season.
Webber secured it by three tenths of a second from Poland’s Robert Kubica in a Renault, with Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel pushed into third place.
“The first lap went ok, I brushed the Armco (barriers) pretty hard at the start of the second sector…I finished that one and then went for another. It just all came together,” said the Australian, winner in Spain from pole last weekend.
The pole was the fourth of Webber’s career and the first at Monaco by an Australian since triple world champion Jack Brabham in 1967.
Brabham, now the oldest surviving champion at 84, also took his first F1 win in Monaco in 1959 — the only time an Australian has won on the unforgiving streets of the Mediterranean principality.
“I wouldn’t be here without Jack Brabham,” said Webber, reminded of the fact. “My Dad followed Jack when he was a young boy and that started I suppose the dream in the Webber household.
“Jack is an absolute legend of the sport and he’s been very good to me over the years…of course it’s an honour to get the pole today but it would be the biggest highlight of my career if I can join him tomorrow.”
Ferrari’s Brazilian Felipe Massa completed the second row in fourth place.
His team mate Fernando Alonso, a two times Monaco winner, watched qualifying from the garage after wrecking his car in final practice. The Spaniard, second in the championship behind McLaren’s Jenson Button, will start from the pit lane.
World champion Button, last year’s winner on the metal-fenced streets of the principality with Brawn GP, just sneaked through to the third and final phase of qualifying and secured eighth slot on the grid.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, the 2008 winner, qualified fifth with Germany’s Nico Rosberg alongside for Mercedes and back in front of team mate Michael Schumacher.
The older German, a five times winner in Monaco and making a comeback at the age of 41 and after three years out, qualified seventh.
Fears that qualifying could be crash-strewn and chaotic, with three much slower new teams on the track and expanding the field to 24 cars since last year’s race, proved unfounded.
The only casualty was Renault’s Russian Vitaly Petrov, who slewed into the barriers at Ste. Devote in the second session and starts 14th.
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Australian Mark Webber made sure of Red Bull’s sixth successive pole position after qualifying quickest for the showcase Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday.
Poland’s Robert Kubica split the two Red Bulls by putting his Renault alongside Webber on the front row and ahead of Germany’s Sebastian Vettel.
Ferrari’s Brazilian Felipe Massa completed the second row in fourth place.
His team mate Fernando Alonso, a two times Monaco winner, watched qualifying from the garage after wrecking his car in final practice. The Spaniard, second in the championship behind McLaren’s Jenson Button, will start from the pit lane.
World champion Button, last year’s winner on the metal-fenced streets of the principality with Brawn GP, just sneaked through to the third and final phase of qualifying and secured eighth slot on the grid.
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Fernando Alonso will start Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix from the pit lane after wrecking his Ferrari in final practice for the showcase race of the Formula One season.
A Ferrari spokesman said the Spaniard, a two times winner in the Mediterranean principality with Renault and McLaren, had damaged his chassis beyond repair in the crash on Saturday morning and would not take part in qualifying.
Double world champion Alonso is currently second in the championship, three points behind McLaren’s Jenson Button after five races.
Alonso ripped the right front wheel off the car and smashed into the metal barriers at Massenet on the approach to Casino square.
The stricken red car was then craned off the track in front of the luxury Hotel de Paris.
Stalking back to the garage, Alonso blamed himself for the accident and told a BBC pitlane reporter that he had simply “lost the car.”
Ferrari confirmed there had been nothing wrong with the car.
“He’s not doing qualifying,” a spokesman said. “We can’t repair it. We need to change it (the chassis) and there’s nothing you can do in two hours.”
The Italian team have not won in Monaco since Michael Schumacher’s fifth triumph in 2001 and have not started any race on pole position since 2008.
Poland’s Robert Kubica was quickest in the final practice for Renault with a lap of one minute 14.806 seconds, ahead of Alonso’s Brazilian team mate Felipe Massa.
Australian Mark Webber, who won in Spain last weekend for Red Bull, was third fastest with 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton fourth for McLaren on a cloudy morning in the Mediterranean principality.
Schumacher, the seven times world champion returning with Mercedes at the age of 41 after three years out, was sixth on the timesheets, behind compatriot Sebastian Vettel in a Red Bull.
Formula One champion Button was 10th for McLaren and said he was struggling for grip.
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London, May 16 (ANI): Formula one champion Jenson Button has accused Ferrari’s driver Felipe Massa of screwing his qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix, where as Michael Schumacher complained that he was impeded by his own Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg.
Button was the chief victim, McLaren’s championship leader hitting out after he was impeded by Massa going into the final corner, The Telegraph reports.
He ended the session eighth fastest, three places behind his team mate Lewis Hamilton, and afterwards called for the stewards to intervene.
“It’s disappointing because he screwed that lap of mine and also the next one because I had to drop back. I don’t know what he was thinking,” Button said.
Massa claimed in his defence that he, too, had been held up by Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg.
Mercedes, the last of the ‘big four’ teams, also had a frustrating day.
Rosberg and Schumacher claimed sixth and seventh on the grid respectively, but the former felt he could and should have been on pole, The Telegraph reports. (ANI)
London, May 13 (ANI): Formula One champion Jenson Button has revealed he would prefer to win in front of his own fans at Silverstone than in Sunday”s world famous Monte Carlo Grand Prix.
He was speaking as he attempts to become the first British driver since Graham Hill in 1969 to win the Monaco road race two years on the trot.
In 10 seasons in Formula One, the Englishman has not even stepped on the podium on home soil in front of his own fans.
“In your F1 career you would want to win your home Grand Prix, definitely, because there is such a special atmosphere,” The Mirror quoted Button, as saying.
Team mate Lewis Hamilton said his victory at Silverstone in 2008 was one of the greatest moment”s of his soaring career. (ANI)
London, May 12 (ANI): Jenson Button recalls the time when he had to jog 300 metres, up to the Prince of Monaco to receive his Monaco F1 trophy.
After describing the winning of the Grand Prix as his most embarrassing moment, he doesn’t mind reliving it.
“It”s going to stay in my mind forever, running up to Prince Albert of Monaco and saying, ”I”m sorry I parked in the wrong place”,” The Sun quoted the F1 champ as saying.
Describing how the Monaco win had a special place in his heart, Button said, “As he handed me the trophy and I lifted it above my head, it really dawned on me what I had achieved.
“To hammer a car around that Monaco circuit, in between those walls, the armco barriers – it”s like driving a go-kart round your living room!
“Every lap gets more and more difficult because the barriers seem to get closer and closer. Mentally it is so, so draining.
“It”s such a special race. I think every driver will agree with me that it”s the first race you would love to win in a Formula One car,” he said nostalgically. (ANI)
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