{"id":4193,"date":"2010-04-06T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2010-04-06T07:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:08:04","slug":"button-flies-30-hours-for-mclaren-simulator-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/button-flies-30-hours-for-mclaren-simulator-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Button flies 30 hours for McLaren simulator tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">After the chequered flag flew in Bahrain, McLaren ordered Jenson Button to shortly begin a 30-hour return to Europe.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Flying to F1&#8217;s next stop, Shanghai, would have cost the reigning world champion just five hours in the air, and only a couple more hours would have had him relaxing in his Japanese girlfriend Jessica&#8217;s native Japan.<\/p>\n<p>But McLaren wanted Button, 30, to instead complete the 21,000 kilometre marathon for just a single working day at the wheel of the sophisticated driver simulator at Woking.<\/p>\n<p>He will then fly from the UK back to Asia for a holiday, prior to completing the journey to China for round four next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thirty hours travel for one day,&#8221; Button smilingly contemplated before leaving Kuala Lumpur.\u00a0 &#8220;But it will be worth it, hopefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After winning in Melbourne, Button comparatively struggled in Malaysia, climbing to eighth on Sunday while his teammate Lewis Hamilton finished a highly-commended sixth from lower on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Button is struggling with the balance of the MP4-25, while McLaren want him to hone the latest developments that are due to be added to the package in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The great thing is our car is improving all the time, but I&#8217;m still not 100 per cent happy with its balance,&#8221; the Briton said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully we can sort out some of the problems in the simulator.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a long way back but they wouldn&#8217;t be sending me unless there were a few things to test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the chequered flag flew in Bahrain, McLaren ordered Jenson Button to shortly begin a 30-hour return to Europe.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,153,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193"}],"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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}