For the third race in a row, the McLaren Mercedes team failed to score a point. After the double podium finish in Australia, hopes had been high for a better 2014, but right now the team are the fourth fastest Mercedes-powered team in Formula 1, a position the team did not foresee nor want to be in. Drivers Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen would finish just outside the points in 11th and 12th at the end after a rather mediocre weekend for both. Button lost a handful of places at the start that resulted in him struggling for track position throughout the race, and even when the team gambled on an early second pit stop to try and get the undercut on drivers ahead of him, circumstances went...
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