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Austria retirement a precaution - Button

McLaren Honda McLaren driver Jenson Button says his retirement from the Austrian Grand Prix was duly precautionary, as he did not want to cause damage to his power unit following a sensor failure. An intake system sensor failure struck his McLaren during the early stages of running at the Red Bull Ring and, with the squad having fitted a new power unit to his car over the weekend, Button did not want to cause further damage ahead of his home race. "Nothing was broken on my car, but something was wrong – and the switch-changes didn’t make any difference," he said. "So the team took the decision to retire the car – we’d fitted a brand new engine this weekend, and we...
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