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Button blames upgrades for qualifying flop

May 11th, 2013 (AFP) - Jenson Button admitted that his McLaren team's package of upgrades for his struggling car were 'nowhere near enough' to revitalise their performances after he qualified only 14th for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. The 33-year-old Briton, who won the world title in 2009, was clearly disappointed at failing to make the cut into the top ten shootout, a flop that signalled his poor season appears to be going nowhere. His McLaren team-mate, Mexican rookie Sergio Perez, qualified ninth. "The tyre pressures were massively high, so I don't know if something was wrong or if they were set wrong, but we're looking into it now," Button moaned...
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