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F1 driver passed out in Malaysia

F1 drivers' extreme dieting in 2014 caused one racer to pass out in Malaysia, it emerges. We reported on Saturday that some drivers are deliberately dehydrating, even at sweltering Sepang, in order to get the weight of their car below the legal 692kg limit. "That is what I was going to do," admitted Jenson Button. "Go in a sauna, steam room, not drink or eat until after qualifying. "It is a shame for the guys who have to do it." It appears, in fact, that Button has been toying with dehydration 'strategies' in Malaysia. "Morning run for Jenson," his trainer, Mikey Collier, said on Twitter on Saturday, "with pre and post weight measurements to guide...
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