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F1: Button Satisfied With Fourth In Qualifying
Jenson Button will start the Indian GP from fourth position...
Jenson Button drove for Honda in its previous incarnations with BAR and latterly under the Honda name. (Photo: Getty Images)
Jenson Button says he’s satisfied with fourth on the grid in India, despite just losing out to teammate Lewis Hamilton.
Like other drivers, Button had to work hard to get his tires into their operating window, and he lost a bit of form when it mattered in Q3.
“Not too bad,” the McLaren driver said. “We really struggled to get the tires working on lap one. So I went for a different strategy to most, I think. I did a three-timed lap run, which really worked for me in Q2. But in Q3 I didn’t have quite as good a balance as I had in Q2, a bit more understeer in the car. I guess the circuit gripped up.
“We didn’t expect it to grip up that much, and when it does, you pick up understeer. Not quite the perfect lap, but pretty happy to be fourth, the second row. Our start is pretty good, so we’ll see what we can do from there.”
Regarding the Pirellis, he noted: “You’ve got to work them very hard. Our out laps are full speed; it’s like a qualification lap to try to get them up to temperature. It’s quite unusual. I mean you’re working the tire quite hard around here; there’s a lot of high speed. And you’d think that it would be warm enough as well, wouldn’t you?”
Button said that he was happier with the car than he had been on Friday.
“We’ve changed quite a bit on the car and understood the tires a bit more and how to work with them,” the former World Champion said. “We should be happy with what we’ve done today as a team. We’re not far off the Red Bulls, and we’re in front of the Ferraris. It couldn’t have got much better. I’m pretty happy with what we’ve done. We’ve just got to see what the car’s like tomorrow.”
Adam Cooper notched up his 27th season as a racing journalist in 2011. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.
Like other drivers, Button had to work hard to get his tires into their operating window, and he lost a bit of form when it mattered in Q3.
“Not too bad,” the McLaren driver said. “We really struggled to get the tires working on lap one. So I went for a different strategy to most, I think. I did a three-timed lap run, which really worked for me in Q2. But in Q3 I didn’t have quite as good a balance as I had in Q2, a bit more understeer in the car. I guess the circuit gripped up.
“We didn’t expect it to grip up that much, and when it does, you pick up understeer. Not quite the perfect lap, but pretty happy to be fourth, the second row. Our start is pretty good, so we’ll see what we can do from there.”
Regarding the Pirellis, he noted: “You’ve got to work them very hard. Our out laps are full speed; it’s like a qualification lap to try to get them up to temperature. It’s quite unusual. I mean you’re working the tire quite hard around here; there’s a lot of high speed. And you’d think that it would be warm enough as well, wouldn’t you?”
Button said that he was happier with the car than he had been on Friday.
“We’ve changed quite a bit on the car and understood the tires a bit more and how to work with them,” the former World Champion said. “We should be happy with what we’ve done today as a team. We’re not far off the Red Bulls, and we’re in front of the Ferraris. It couldn’t have got much better. I’m pretty happy with what we’ve done. We’ve just got to see what the car’s like tomorrow.”
Adam Cooper notched up his 27th season as a racing journalist in 2011. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.
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