News Details

Jenson Button: “I got so unlucky with the Virtual Safety Car”

Jenson Button was unfortunate with the timing of the final virtual safety car during the Malaysian Grand Prix as he felt other drivers were able to get the jump on him. The McLaren-Honda star was on a two-stop strategy but other drivers on three-stop strategies were able to gain time on the Briton with consigned Button to ninth place, two places behind team-mate Fernando Alonso who had started at the back of the field. Button felt the two stop strategy would have worked for him had it not been for the virtual safety car, which was to retrieve the retired car of Lewis Hamilton from turn one. “My race wasn’t too bad – but I got so unlucky with the Virtual Safety Car,” said Button....
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Virtual Safety Car timing costs Button

Malaysian Grand Prix – Jenson Button was hurt by the timing of the...
9y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Alonso: McLaren needed some luck and we got that today

Fernando Alonso says McLaren needed some luck after he picked up a...
9y ago from GrandPrixTimes.com

Button rues unlucky timing of second VSC

 XPB Images Jenson Button concluded his 300th Grand Prix at...
9y ago from F1i.com

Malaysia GP: Race notes - Pirelli

The Malaysian Grand Prix, won by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, got...
9y ago from Pitpass.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Chip Ganassi Racing lands new sponsor for Kyffin...

Chip Ganassi Racing has announced a new sponsor for the team’s #8 entry...

IndyCar announces independent officiating system

The NTT IndyCar Series announced on Thursday that it will implement a new...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Yohan Rossel and Nikolay Gryazin spearhead Lancia’s...

Team Lancia Corse HF has announced the 2025 WRC2 championship runners-up...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsecast Extra Episode 671 – 15.12.2025

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and...
6h ago from Arseblog.com

“Maybe it’s because I’m not involved” - Arsene...

Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger reckons the Gunners have a good...
6h ago from SportsKeeda.com

AC Milan plotting January move for Arsenal star who...

AC Milan have reportedly made Gabriel Jesus their top attacking target for...
9h ago from CaughtOffside.com

It's fine to to win and be annoyed

Morning all. It's the start of a new week, and now that the dust has...
11h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

The new FIA rule that impacts every F1 team

The FIA have announced that a new Concorde... Read More »
1h ago from GPFans.com

Mekies reveals 2026 benefit of Red Bull’s...

Red Bull may have fallen agonisingly short of the... Read More »
2h ago from F1i.com

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.