It has been an very eventful, very cultural bank holiday weekend for Manchester starting with Manchester City Council’s official I Love MCR day on Thursday, one of the world’s largest Gay Pride festivals and the beginning of Eid al Fitr as well as a very special guest appearance of Jenson Button tearing through the streets of Deansgate in his Formula One car.

A three day motoring event hosted by mobile giants Vodafone culminated with the F1 star fresh from his podium finish in Belgium at the weekend. Despite miserable weather, Button took to the streets in the latest Vodafone Mclaren F1 car and entertained the huge crowds with a deafening engine and speeds of up to 105mph on one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares.

One of our resident motor enthusiasts Al Woods managed to snap a few shots of button in what was a great and eventful weekend for our great city.