Jenson Button calls for closed cockpits

Jenson Button has called for the immediate introduction of closed cockpits in single-seater motor-racing to avoid any further fatalities.

Button was speaking from the Monza paddock ahead of this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix, with the sport mourning another death.

Justin Wilson, who Button competed against in the junior ranks of motor sport as well as in Formula One, died last month after he was struck on his crash helmet by a piece of debris during an IndyCar race in Pennsylvania.