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High salary could end Button’s F1 career
High salary could end Button's F1 career Posted On 23 Aug 2015 By : thisisf1 Comment: 0 Twitter0 Facebook0 Google+0 Pinterest0 High salary could end Jenson Button's F1 career 2009 world champion Jenson Button's Formula 1 career could end because of a pay-rise that is scheduled to kick in for 2016 season. Two British newspapers, the Daily Mail and the Telegraph, are reporting that the 35-year-old's current retainer of $12.5 million would rise to almost $19 million if McLaren takes up the ‘option' on his existing deal. 'McLaren's driver bill would then be $58 million which could prove too much,' wrote the Daily Mail's Jonathan McEvoy from Spa-Francorchamps. The wage bill has reportedly...
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