{"id":15642,"date":"2012-03-27T07:19:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15642"},"modified":"2012-03-27T07:19:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:19:35","slug":"button-to-inflict-punishment-after-malaysian-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/button-to-inflict-punishment-after-malaysian-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Button to inflict punishment after Malaysian mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenson Button has revealed he will inflict his own personal punishment after losing his championship lead in Malaysia last weekend.<\/p>\n

\"Jenson-Button\"The McLaren driver also uncharacteristically collided with a rival car at Sepang – backmaker HRT’s Narain Karthikeyan – and accepted all the blame.<\/p>\n

“It shows fantastic maturity (to apologise),” 1992 world champion and fellow Briton Nigel Mansell told UK radio Talksport.<\/p>\n

But his maturity won’t stop him from “hurting” himself this weekend in Hawaii, when he competes in the Lavaman triathlon.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to hurt myself because I deserve the pain after (Malaysia),” he is quoted by the Telegraph newspaper.<\/p>\n

“I will make sure I hurt myself extra for such a bad day.”<\/p>\n

For Button and for McLaren in general, however, Sunday’s bad result was what team boss Martin Whitmarsh described as a ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’.<\/p>\n

“Sebastian (Vettel) not coming away with any points and a few of the other contenders not getting any points, it could have been a lot worse,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Jenson Button has revealed he will inflict his own personal punishment after losing his championship lead in Malaysia last weekend. The McLaren driver also uncharacteristically collided with a rival car at Sepang – backmaker HRT’s Narain Karthikeyan – and accepted all the blame. “It shows fantastic maturity (to apologise),” 1992 world champion and fellow Briton …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,153,1178,491,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15643,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15642\/revisions\/15643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}