McLaren driver Jenson Button has said his performance in Sochi is his ‘best qualifying of the season’.
The 2009 world champion qualified 13th for tomorrow’s race at the Sochi Autodrom and after failing to make it out of Q1 in seven of the previous eight races, Button was happy with his performance.
“This was probably my best qualifying performance of the year. Today, we got into Q2 due to our actual speed, rather than because of the others having any issues.
Button hailed the progress which has been made by the team but admits the race will be even more difficult due to the high fuel consumption of the Honda power unit.
“I’m encouraged because it was always going to be a very tricky weekend for us. Nonetheless, the race will be tougher for us than qualifying was because our deployment isn’t as good as other people’s, so we’ll be affected along the long straights here. In turn, that will affect our fuel consumption – since we use more fuel because we don’t have as much deployment capability.
“Still, this is progress.”
McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso failed to make it into Q2 and will start 19th.
