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Button burnt during Bahrain Grand Prix

Jenson Button may have won and increased his championship lead in Bahrain at the weekend, although all was not well for the Englishman inside the Brawn-Mercedes. Whereas Fernando Alonso had no working drinks bottle for the duration of the race, the Englishman suffered from burning cockpit temperatures.

A victorious but burnt Button finished the face in pain after an electrical problem resulted in the rising heat. "It was really hot," he said. "All the boxes around my seat were burning; I burnt the top of my left buttock on an electrical box, it's a little bit burnt. Hopefully we can solve that issue."

Frome's Button, who has now won three out of four races in 2009, was relieved to step out of the car in a race which had featured, in his opinion, his finest ever first lap. Jenson's burn did not cause pain to the degree of Mark Webber's injuries in 2004, however, when temperatures inside the Jaguar resulted in a premature retirement from the Japanese Grand Prix.

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