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Button starting on clean side of track
World Champion Jenson Button hopes that starting on the racing line will be his saving grace in Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix, having qualified fifth behind Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton, Robert Kubica and Sebastian Vettel.
With both himself and McLaren team-mate Hamilton having managed to improve on their final runs, despite running Slick tyres on a damp circuit, Button was only able to reach fifth spot whereas Hamilton made the front row alongside the Red Bull.
“Our car feels good and I think our pace has been good all weekend,” said Jenson. “I just wish I could be a bit further up.
"We ran used tyres at the start of Q3 and used tyres at the end and two of the cars ahead of me put their best times in at the start of the session, when it was dry.
“For my final run, there’d been a bit of rain in Sector 1, so I lost about three and a half tenths to my previous best Q3 lap in the first sector. I was down quite a bit but was able to pull it back in the middle and last sectors, which were quite competitive. I’m reasonably happy but would have liked to have been a bit higher up.
“Still, I’m fifth – on the good side of the grid – and in this sort of weather anything can happen, so it’s pretty exciting. That’s the way it is but I still think we can have a very good race with our car tomorrow.”
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