The incident pitched the Spaniard out of the race and punctured Button's tyre - prompting another pit stop and dropping him to the rear of the field. The race was red-flagged completely on lap 25 when the heavens absolutely opened over the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and so ensured a two-hour suspension to the race.īutton resumed in ninth place but soon hit trouble again - colliding with another fellow world champion, this time Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, at the second chicane. Starting behind the Safety Car, Button and Hamilton controversially collided inside the first three laps of green-flag racing in battle down the pit straight - with the latter McLaren retiring - and Jenson then picked up a drive-through penalty under the second Safety Car that was called as a result a few laps later.
He qualified only seventh in a disappointing qualifying for McLaren but the elongated race provided sufficient twists and turns that nobody was counted out. Button: 'The greatest comeback of my life'īutton, two years on from his world title triumph with Brawn, was in his second season at McLaren alongside Lewis Hamilton and heading to Canada was fourth in a Vettel-dominated championship, nine points adrift of Hamilton. Watch at 9pm on Friday night on Sky Sports F1 - and online earlier via the YouTube stream above and Facebook. "Times do get tough and this really showed me if you keep your head down you can come out the other side of it." 2011 Canadian Grand Prix: Race Highlights FORMULA 1 8.6M subscribers Subscribe 25K 1.1M views 2 years ago F1Rewind CanadianGP Relive the best moments from an epic race as Jenson Button. "In four hours of racing, so much went wrong and this really helped me mentally with the rest of my career. The adrenaline, the highs and lows, through this race were beyond anything I'd experienced - or experienced since. Button admitted: "This was basically my whole career in one grand prix.
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