Jenson Button got his first taste of an FIA World Rallycross Championship Supercar yesterday when he swapped his McLaren-Honda for a JRM Racing Mini RX at Lydden Hill in Kent. The 2009 world champion flew into the UK with BBC F1 commentator David Coulthard to film a feature that will be aired in the build up to a future Grand Prix. The premise of the feature was to re-trace some of the steps that Jenson's late father, John, took when he was a prominent rallycross driver in the Seventies. He finished runner up in the 1976 British Rallycross Championship driving a distinctive VW Beetle. Like his father, Jenson has felt a strong attraction to rallycross - a burgeoning sport that gained FIA...
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