{"id":5485,"date":"2010-05-17T06:22:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2010-05-17T06:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:22:05","slug":"mclaren-mechanic-keeps-job-after-button-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-mechanic-keeps-job-after-button-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren mechanic keeps job after Button failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McLaren mechanic who cost Jenson Button his championship lead has kept his job but is &#8220;devastated&#8221;, according to team boss Martin Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->On the Monaco grid, the mechanic forgot to remove a cooling bung from the sidepod of Briton Button&#8217;s MP4-25 and the engine overheated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you are trying to do your best and you make a mistake it is devastating,&#8221; said Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n<p>Button, 30, was initially angry but he later acknowledged that mistakes happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure the guy who did not pull it out is gutted.\u00a0 I feel sorry for the guy.\u00a0 We all make mistakes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>It also emerged that, on Saturday, Button had to throw a remote control for his garage monitor out of the cockpit at the Rascasse chicane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This one (the cooling bung) was a race stopper,&#8221; said Button, who is now fourth in the championship and 8 points behind the new leader Mark Webber.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McLaren mechanic who cost Jenson Button his championship lead has kept his job but is &#8220;devastated&#8221;, according to team boss Martin Whitmarsh.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,153,491,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485"}],"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=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}