Button caught up in new hold up in Brazil

[John S]

Track entrance closed to him and Senna, even with their police escorts.             
Perhaps they mistook Jens in his Macca uniform for Massa's best pal Lewis.  

After escaping armed robbers while leaving Interlagos last year, McLaren's Jenson Button suffered a different kind of hold up when he tried to get in to the Brazilian Formula One circuit on Thursday.

The McLaren driver told Reuters that he, and others including Renault's Brazilian Bruno Senna and Team Lotus's Indian reserve Karun Chandhok, had been denied access when they turned up with a police escort.

"They wouldn't let us in the front gate. They closed the tunnel and wouldn't let us in so we were half an hour waiting outside to get in," said the Briton.

"We had to drive around and then try and come across the circuit.

"We were like 'We've got the FIA press conference and you'll be paying our fine'...eventually they let us across the circuit and we got in."

Reuters, 24th Nov.