Button steps up personal security after robbery


McLaren Formula One driver Jenson Button of Britain walks in the pit lane ahead of the weekend's Belgian F1 Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, August 20, 2015. REUTERS/Yves Herman

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (Reuters) - McLaren Formula One driver Jenson Button has taken measures to increase his personal security after the Briton and his wife were robbed while asleep in a private villa in the south of France this month.

The 2009 world champion's wife Jessica had her 300,000 euro engagement ring taken in the burglary in Saint-Tropez, with Button fearing the couple may have been knocked out by soporific gas fed through the air conditioning system.

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