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After struggling to ninth in a disastrous Melbourne debut for the radical new car, the 2009 champion said his car would never win a race in its current state. But just seven days later engineers unlocked the car’s true potential and Button was squaring up to battle Lewis Hamilton for a podium place in Malaysia. Only a pit stop cock-up ruined his chances.
“The championship is still on as far as I am concerned and I am aiming for that. Definitely,” said Button.
“Sebastian almost beat me to the title in 2009 and he didn’t score for the first four races. It’s a massive turnaround for us. Most of the race in Sepang we were quicker than the Lotus.
Most of the race we were quicker than Ferrari. Who would have thought that five days before? We are still not where we want to be and we got a bit lucky with the circuit being so smooth which helped a bit but a lot is understanding where the downforce is.
“The car is still not perfected, it was really thrown together for Sepang. “The great thing is there are so many cars that are competitive.” — The Mirror.
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