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Jenson Button: 'You shouldn't be penalised for fixing a safety concern'

Jenson Button insists the radio restrictions have gone too far in penalising a driver for getting assitance with a problem that could lead to a crash, after he was handed a drive-through penalty during the Hungarian Grand Prix. The McLaren driver reported that his brake pedal was 'going all the way down to the floor' during the race and quickly dropped down the field from ninth to last as a result. He was then given some information to resolve the problem, which infringed the radio communication rules, resulting in a drive-through penalty, despite the Briton already making a trip through the pits. 'To be fair the problem resolved itself,' he explained. 'Basically the brake pedal went...
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