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Button unhappy with overall balance
World Champion Jenson Button languishes in 11th on the grid and is therefore set for his second consecutive difficult Grand Prix in Hungary, having picked up his maiden Formula 1 win at the Hungaroring for Honda in 2006.
Lewis Hamilton leads the way for McLaren in fifth although Button’s personal best effort of 1:21.292 is an enormous two and a half seconds down on pole-sitters Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing.
“In practice the car was working well and I think we had a pretty good balance, but in qualifying I couldn’t find a good balance for it,” Button explained to reporters in the Budapest paddock.
“We changed the car a little bit, not a lot, but the good thing is we are on the clean side so can hopefully fight from there.
“The car was very well balanced this morning, I was pretty happy with it. We’re obviously not on the pace of a couple of the teams - this afternoon we just didn’t have the speed.”
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