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| Jenson starts as he means to go on - and he could have been so much faster |
He commented "Every victory means a lot but today shows just how important it was to have a strong winter, he confirmed. The starts of the past two seasons have both been tricky for us, so today is really encouraging. The guys at the circuit and all the men and women back in Woking have done an amazing job to get us here"
Button believes there is now a realistic chance to fight with this car for the championship. His only concern was the restart following the safety car. He said "At the start, I really wanted to get away fast in the first two laps to avoid the threat of DRS it wasn't easy because I had Lewis right on my tail. But the race went smoothly after that. My biggest worry was the late-race Safety Car: I had a 10-second advantage, which was pretty healthy, but the Safety Car cut that to nothing."
Not only that, he had to spend the early part of the race in fuel saving mode unnecessarily. McLaren thought he was using too much fuel and asked him to just manage the gap at the front. He later revealed that he could have raced full on and still have enough fuel for both cars.
Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile finished 3rd, although this has been attributed to the safety car incident in which he lost out to raining champion Vettel. I have no personal doubt that we'd have had a McLaren one-two if fortunes had gone their way, but that's racing.
The good testing period for McLaren has shown how important it is for a good start to the season. Without doubt, the two best cars on the grid were the McLarens.
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