Button has a giggle on his return to Monaco


Formula One - F1 - Monaco Grand Prix - Monaco - 25/05/2017 - McLaren-Honda's Jenson Button waves before the start of the first free practice session. REUTERS/Max Rossi

MONACO (Reuters) - It took Jenson Button five corners of the Monaco Grand Prix circuit on Thursday before he started to chuckle.

The 2009 world champion had not driven a Formula One car for seven months and was accelerating around one of the trickiest of tracks in a McLaren that was wider and faster than the one he last raced.

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