News Details

Button 'lucky' in drain cover incident

– Jenson Button says he felt "lucky" to escape unharmed after his car struck a drain cover during first practice for the Monaco Grand Prix.Button's McLaren-Honda suffered significant damage when it hit the cover, which had been flicked up by Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg.Race Control red flagged the session as a result, with a couple of minutes remaining, and ensured that the cover was welded down for FP2."[The drain cover] came loose and broke through my front wing, front suspension, brake duct and floor," said Button, as he recalled the incident."The mechanics did a great job to get the car ready for [the second practice session], but we've still got a long...
Full Story »
9y ago from GPUpdate.net 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Button collides with drain cover during FP1

Monaco Grand Prix – A freak incident with a loose drain cover...
9y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Button lucky to avoid harm in drain cover strike

Jenson Button admits he was 'lucky' not to suffer more consequences as a...
9y ago from Crash.net

Button in lucky escape after hitting drain cover

The extent of Jenson Button's lucky escape from a more serious incident...
9y ago from Motorsport.com

Button 'lucky' to escape injury from drain cover

 XPB Images Jenson Button says he was "lucky" to...
9y ago from F1i.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

BMW: Losing Toprak Razgatlioglu to MotoGP feels like...

BMW says losing Toprak Razgatlioglu departure from its WorldSBK team to...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

IndyCar will not return to Thermal Club in 2026...

According to comments made by Thermal Club founder and owner Tim Rogers,...
16h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Malukas’ recovery drive secures Foyt’s best team...

During Sunday’s IndyCar race at Road America, David Malukas was the...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Journalist reveals Arsenal's dream transfer target...

Journalist Ben Jacobs has provided an update on Arsenal's top transfer...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

I cried for a week after leaving Arsenal, but now I...

Crystal Palace attacking midfielder Eberechi Eze has previously spoken...
24m ago from CaughtOffside.com

BBC confirm Arsenal talks to sign Spanish star plus...

Arsenal's talks to sign Valencia central defender Cristhian Mosquera have...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

MLS signs his contract + The Arsenal transfer cake

What the hell did I say about nothing happening? Let's start this morning...
3h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.