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Button says McLaren threw away a good result

Jenson Button has laid the blame squarely on his team for making the wrong tyre call during his first stop during the Hungarian Grand Prix. The Briton reckons the decision to keep the intermediate tyre, whilst those around him changed to slicks, cost McLaren a good result. "We obviously use a different radar to everyone else as the team thought it was going to rain," he said. Button was running fifth at the time and emerged from the pits behind eventual race winner Daniel Ricciardo who was running slicks. However with no rain in sight, Button was forced to pit on the next lap to change to dry tyres. "I did everything right in the race and it's tough. Fifth at the start, [I]...
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