Formula One racing driver Jenson Button was taken offline today, after his shocked and angry fans discovered they had been the victims of an elaborate hoax.
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“We apologise unreservedly for this tasteless hoax which has been perpetrated on the British public for many years,” admitted a red-faced McLaren spokesman, “But there is absolutely no truth in the existence of Jenson Button. He was started as a joke by the Williams team in the 2000 race season, and we - along with all the other teams he’s supposedly driven for - kept the joke going because we don’t like it to be generally known that Formula One cars pretty much drive themselves nowadays, with just a little input from the race engineers to tweak a parameter or two between pit-stops.”
“As for Lewis Hamilton, he drives one of our trucks from one track to another,” he added sheepishly. “We thought it would be a laugh to dress a black guy up in racing overalls and see if anyone fell for it. All the teams do this sort of thing. If you go to any of the European races, you’ll find the chap selling you an ice cream is probably ‘Fernando Alonso’.”
Sports aficionados, meanwhile, are laughing at the gullibility of F1 fans – pointing out that, for many years now, not a single ‘driver’ has anything which could be described as a personality.
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