Jenson Button has been ruled out of the Bahrain Grand Prix after his McLaren Honda team were unable to repair a mechanical issue in time for the race. The 2009 world champion’s weekend at the Sakhir circuit has been plagued by car problems which began with his MP4-30 coming to halt in both Friday practice sessions. An ERS failure struck early in qualifying on Saturday leaving Button unable to post a time. The Woking based team had worked through the night to repair the car before confirming shortly before the start of Sunday’s race that a reoccurrence of the issue forced Button out of the race. “Sadly we are not able to ready Jenson’s car. During fire-up, data indicated an issue...
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