SAO PAULO (AP) — Formula One drivers are not worried about their safety heading into Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix, despite Jenson Button’s confrontation last year with armed men outside the Interlagos track in South America’s biggest city.
Teams say the attack on Button has not prompted significant changes to increase the safety of their drivers in Brazil this year.
Even the British driver said he was not too concerned coming back to Brazil. Button’s father, John, who also was in the car attacked by gunmen in 2010, said Thursday “we are not living in fear.”
Button, his father and his physiotherapist had left the track after qualifying when a group of armed men attempted to attack their armored Mercedes. They escaped thanks to evasive maneuvers by the car’s driver.
