Though Button then pitted, as the latest revision of the regulations demands drivers do when given technical advice, he was still given a drive-through penalty and believed this was because the message had come when he was still on track.
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Button eventually retired from the race because of an oil leak, making him the only driver on the grid not to complete the 70 laps.
Fernando Alonso: “Well, P7 has been my position all weekend!” “If you have a problem you have to pit, I guess earlier than we did”. “Not much action today”. For us, it was a little bit of a boring afternoon at some points – not the usual Hungaroring show – and the only retirement, unfortunately, was Jenson. The brakes just weren’t there, which was a big safety concern.
“The guys gave me a switch change, so it didn’t happen again, so the pedal wouldn’t go to the floor again and we got penalised for that”.
“The progression of the team is very positive, we’re having a good run now, we’ll have another race next weekend, the fourth from this marathon that is July, and I hope we can score points again, at this level, but I think it will be hard”.
“I completely understand that drivers shouldn’t be fed information that helps us drive our cars – we should be able to deal with that job ourselves, and in fact I love that challenge”.
“If it’s wet it always makes it exciting and you always have to think on your feet which I think we’re good at doing as a team”. When you have a power unit that’s so complex, a driver can’t figure out everything for himself.
“I think the top five cars are going to disappear, wet or dry”, said Britain’s 2009 world champion Button. It reads as follows: FP1: P7; FP2: P7; FP3: P7; Quali: P7; Race: P7.
Daniel Ricciardo held off Sebastian Vettel for third place, while Max Verstappen got the better of Kimi Raikkonen in a heated battle for fifth.
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McLaren have not won a race since the 2012 season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix and have struggled for speed and reliability since joining forces with the Japanese engine manufacturer at the start of 2015. “That was quite stressful, but it’s the way it is, the system worked fine all weekend”.
