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Heavy F1 drivers deliberately dehydrating warns Button
Heavy F1 drivers deliberately dehydrating warns Button 29 March, 2014 Formula 1 drivers are deliberately dehydrating in order to get their weight down at Grand Prix weekends.
That is the claim of the experienced McLaren driver Jenson Button, who said drivers are so desperate to be lighter that they are cutting out food and water even at sweltering Sepang.
'I am sure they are dehydrating themselves because that is what I was going to do — go in a sauna, steam room, not drink or eat until after qualifying,' he is quoted in Malaysia by the Mirror newspaper.
'I was going to do it and did all year until now, but it is a shame for the guys who have to do it.'
Button admitted he has...
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