Ironically, the incident took place at the same spot where Nelson Piquet Jr deliberately crashed last year to allow teammate Fernando Alonso to win, which resulted in Renault receiving a suspended two-year ban from racing.

Button heads the drivers' standings with 80 points, followed by Barrichello on 66 with only four races remaining.

German Sebastian Vettel is a distant third with 54 points and his Red Bull team-mate Webber has 51.5.