Jenson Button has labelled the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as his ‘best race of the year’, having achieved 12th place.
Button ends the season with 16 points, putting him 16th in the drivers’ championship. It is his worst season in a McLaren and the third worst in his career.
The Englishman has spoken about the controversial incident between him and Valtteri Bottas in the pit lane.
“At my first pit-stop, I saw that Valtteri was going to get released – which his team shouldn’t really have done, as I was pulling into the pit-box – and I braced myself for the hit. It disrupted my stop and unsettled the boys quite a bit – the worst outcome for me was that I fell out of the DRS zone I’d been chasing to stay within all race. That has been our game-plan all year, and I lost time because of that.”
He has spoken of how happy he was with his performance today, and enjoyed keeping Bottas behind him for so long. However, he did admit that having to save fuel hampered him.
“I’m happy with all we did today. I had to save fuel for the whole race, which hurt us and made things difficult, but I was still having fun out there. You wouldn’t think I’d have been able to keep a Williams-Mercedes behind for so long in the closing laps, because it was so much quicker in a straight line, but we could. That was a surprise, but a real positive to take away from today.”
Button also stated that he is raring to go for the 2016 season.
“I’m already looking forward to next year – we just need to keep pushing.”
