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Jenson Button: “We knew we weren’t going to be competitive here”

It was a disappointing qualifying session for the McLaren-Honda team in Australia, with Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen qualifying seventeenth and eighteenth on the grid, and will start on the back row of the grid with the Manor F1 Team absent from proceedings. Button knew the team would struggle at Albert Park, with pre-season testing hinting the car was a little behind their opposition. Despite his lowly grid slot however, the 2009 World Champion revealed he still felt positive about the potential of the MP4/30. “This level of performance wasn’t a surprise for us: we knew from winter testing that the pace wasn’t there, so we knew we weren’t going to be competitive here,”...
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