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TopGear.com's Monday teaser: Can £57,000 dry the tears of a soon-to-be-former F1 world champ?
Jenson Button - McLaren driver, TG lap-board-er and all round Cool Dude - pretty much lost his chance of repeating his 2009 feat of becoming F1 world champion, thanks to something called 'Korea'.
Still, he can take heart from selling two of his beloved motors at last Friday's H&H auction in Somerset, netting him a tidy £57,000.
His classic, and rather beautiful Honda S600 sold for £40,700, while his comedy 1970 VW Kombi went for over £15k, making the 'Frome-flyer' a tidy sum.
Strange choices for a racing maestro, but don't forget, Jense used to own quite a lot of exciting machinery, including a BMW M5, Audi RS6 and Bugatti Veyron.
Maybe he could spend some of that auction haul on a huggable bear, to hug away his Korean heartbreak?
If you happened to miss the inaugural Korean GP, here's a quick roundup: wet, safety car, more wet, still safety car, slightly wetter, safety car, race starts, CRASH! OVERSTEER! SLIDE! FIRE! EXPLOSION! Then some bloke with expensive thumbs won.
Anyhoo, what should Button spend his money on?
Jenson Button nets £57k in one day
Reigning F1 world champion sells two motors at auction. One is a classic Honda. The other is...
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AshHorne commented on this article
at 02:33 pm on 25 October 2010
wet-weather driving lessons. :P I dunno. £57k... Second hand Maserati? Or is that too italian for McLaren's comfort?
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AshHorne commented on this article
at 02:35 pm on 25 October 2010
Or better yet, use it to find and buy an extremely rare, classic car that he can restore and cherish. Anybody with money can buy a fast car (he's owned a Veyron - the king of speed. He must be getting bored of fast road cars by now?) but rarity is something you can't simply 'buy'. An E-type? Or an AC Cobra?
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at 02:41 pm on 25 October 2010
Fiat Punto?
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at 03:58 pm on 25 October 2010
AshHorne since when have E-types or cobras been rare ? i would call you retarded but ofcom may intervene
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JOHNJOE commented on this article
at 05:38 pm on 25 October 2010
A triumph stag with a rover v8, or a peugeot 504 diesel estate.
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