2013 Formula One USGP Practice, Button handed grid penalty

[Howard]

Howard Choularton submitted a new blog post:

2013 Formula One USGP Practice, Button handed grid penalty

After a foggy Friday practice session plagued by delays, Vettel emerged as the fastest on the track as Jenson Button was handed a three-place grid penalty for ignoring red flags.

During the first practice session, foggy weather prevented the medical helicopter from operating, causing delays. After a 40-minute wait, the session finally started, but soon stopped again due to another issue with the medical helicopter.

Race control had been informed, during the delay, that the medical...

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[Bram Hengeveld]

There you go Heikki. Very welll done

Considering he didn't drive a single lap ever and had to give his seat to Rossi in FP1 vd Garde did pretty good staying so close to Pic.

Looking forward to the rest of the weekend.

 

[Jax Humanhater]

That's pretty rare for Button to be penalised considering how he almost always does not stir controversy.