Ticket sales for Jenson’s race suit get off to a flying start

Monday 18th October 2010, 2:29PM BST.

Jarrod and Gillian Cowley-Grimmond with daughters Sienna, 7, and Phoenix, 5, get their tickets from Vanessa Harris.    (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1040800)

Jarrod and Gillian Cowley-Grimmond with daughters Sienna, 7, and Phoenix, 5, get their tickets from Vanessa Harris. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1040800)

TICKETS to win reigning Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button’s race suit went on sale on Saturday.

Excited fans of the Guernsey-resident driver headed to Le Rondin School to grab their £1 tickets.

An estimated 1,000 were sold.

The special-needs school has organised the fund-raiser to help raise money for specially-adapted equipment.

The Parents and Staff and Friends Association needs £20,000 to pay for tricycles for pupils.

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