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Button blasts ‘pathetic’ penalty over radio messages

 XPB Images Jenson Button has branded the drive-through he received for unauthorised radio messages at the Hungarian Grand Prix as “pathetic”, with the McLaren-Honda driver arguing he and his team were trying to fix a safety-related issue. Button was running eighth in the early laps of the race when he reported that his brake pedal was going to the floor. His engineer immediately told him “do not shit, do not shift, we have lost hydraulic power”. The FIA’s revised radio rules state that team can inform the driver of an “indication of a problem with the car”, but add that “any message of this sort must include an irreversible instruction to enter the pits to...
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