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McLaren denies Button lost his cool with the team in Bahrain

McLaren has denied reports that their driver Jenson Button lost his temper with the team's situation after a woeful Bahrain Grand Prix. The 2009 world champion had a horror weekend of unreliability in the island Kingdom, and then could not even take his Honda-powered car to the grid on Sunday. 'The chances of it (the energy recovery system) failing were quite high so we decided it was better not to run it,' McLaren supremo Ron Dennis said. Britain's Mirror newspaper claims Button, 35, then 'failed to fulfil his media obligations' as he stormed out of the circuit. McLaren on Thursday said those claims are 'complete and utter nonsense', penned by 'desperate headline writers'. 'Jenson...
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