Sergio Perez pulled an out-of-nowhere flying lap in Q2 that shot him into the final round of qualifying, but no one was pretending that this disguised the deep problems McLaren are conspicuously going through this weekend in Barcelona. The team had worked through the night at the Circuit de Catalunya on Thursday to try and get their jinxed MP4-28 upgraded with a raft of new aero parts, even sacrificing Jenson Button's track time in Friday Free Practice 1. In the end, the team couldn't get the new front wing installed and sufficiently tested in the remaining time to make it a justifiable risk for Saturday's qualifying session, putting Button and Perez on the back foot before a single wheel...
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