Jenson Butt🃏on apologised to the McLaren Formula 1 team after damaging his car in a bizarre crash with Pascal Wehrlein during❀ Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix, but was otherwise happy with his one-off comeback.

Button returned to a McLaren race seat for Monaco followinꦉg Fernan🗹do Alonso's decision to race in the Indianapolis 500, with his first run in the McLaren-Honda MCL32 coming on Thursday in practice.

Button qualified ninth on Saturday, but dropped to the back of the grid due✱ to an engin🤪e penalty, with McLaren opting to start the 2009 world champion from the pit lane.

Button spent the entirety of his race battling with Sauber's Pascal Wehrlein, only for♏ both to retire following a clash at Portier that saw the latter's car tip onto its side against th꧃e wall.

"As a racing driver it's difficult to run around near the back and not have a go," Button said, ♐having called the race "painful" at one point through team radio.

"I had a go and ꦆit didn't work out. Sorry to the team for even more damage this weekend after [Stoffel Vandoorne's] crash in qualifying, my incident now. Sorry for that. It's difficult to hold back.

"But yesterday w🎉as awesome, I had a lot of good memories."

While Button confirmed he'll be back in the paddock later this year, he stresse💙d that it would not be as a racing driver.

"You'll defi♔nitely see me at other races but I won't be driving, no," h🦩e said.