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Button gets 25-place grid penalty
Jenson Button will take a 25-place grid penalty for the Austrian Grand Prix after McLaren elected to make a full Honda power unit change. The British driver had headed in to the Red Bull Ring weekend aware that there was a chance he would face the same kind of engine change penalty as his team-mate Fernando Alonso. Following engineering meetings by McLaren and Honda personnel on Friday night, it has been decided that the full power unit assembly will be replaced. That will mean a 25-place grid penalty for Button – which will be impossible for him to take. It means for the second race in succession, following a similar engine change in Canada, Button will face a drive-through penalty in...
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