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Power box failure caused Button's retirement
McLaren has confirmed that a power box failure caused Jenson Button to retire from today's Singapore Grand Prix.
The 2009 world champion had been running in seventh place, just behind Valtteri Bottas, on a two-stop strategy when he slowed with a problem.
He parked his MP4-29 on the back straight, before turn 14, on lap 52 and exited the race, losing what could have been a strong points finish.
'I was cueing things up for the end of the grand prix: I’d been looking after the tyres for the whole stint, and I knew the last five laps were when things were going to get tricky for Valtteri ahead of me,' he explained.
'I’d just switched the car into a different mode, and the chase was starting...
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