FORMULA ONE ace Jenson Button has lifted the lid on the wild, champagne-fuelled parties and childish pranks of motor racing.Jenson Button has opened up about his days of hard partying and explained how he managed to transform his lifeOther party animals included German serial Grand Prix winner Michael Schumacher and hard-racing Scotsman David Coulthard, according to Somerset-born Jenson.
At the time of his debut aged 20 in Melbourne, Australia in 2000, Jenson was one of the youngest-ever F1 drivers.Jenson reveals in How To Be An F1 Driver how he swapped the “sticky floors” of rural Somerset nightclubs for glitzy Monaco.Formula One crews would party hard in haunts such as the Amber Lounge, renowned for its heady mix of royalty, celebrities and F1 legends including Schumacher — who was later to suffer a traumatic brain injury in a skiing accident in 2013.
“The Sunday after Monaco was, and probably still is, a blast. If you go to Amber Lounge it’s like €600 a ticket just to get in, and then you’ve got to pay for drinks and a table.” I was in a slump. I was getting flak, not only from the Press but also my boss, Flavio Briatore, who called me ‘a lazy playboy’.He says: “My change of approach didn’t stop me partying completely. It just gave my work–social life the same thing I look for in cars — balance.
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