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Button should axe sabbatical and retire – Jordan

Button should axe sabbatical and retire – Jordan Jenson Button has been urged to turn his forthcoming ‘sabbatical' into full retirement from formula one. The 2009 world champion said he was convinced by McLaren's now-departing supremo Ron Dennis to take a break from his 17-year F1 career next year and leave the door open to a 2018 return. But Eddie Jordan, a former team owner turned controversial pundit for British television, told the Mirror newspaper: 'If the fire and the commitment and the passion and the drive are still there, why take a year off? 'I don't get that. Sabbaticals do not work,' he insisted. 'If I was his manager I'd be doing everything to say ‘Jenson,...
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