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Button shocked to leave McLaren: 'He just shouted at me'

Jenson Button was driving the Brawn GP car in 2009 when he decided to make a switch to McLaren. In that team he could drive together with Lewis Hamilton which seemed perfect. His old team wasn't too happy with the move though. Among other things, the former driver spoke to Nick Fry, the team's Chief Executive Officer. "I remember I was going into his office and telling him I was leaving and he just shouted at me," Button told The High Performance Podcast. "I basically just started laughing because it was a really uncomfortable situation. I kind of felt for him, for how aggressive he was. He just looked at me and was like 'why are you laughing at me'? It was the situation and...
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