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Button: We can recover in dry
Jenson Button put McLaren's double Q2 elimination in China down to front-tyre warm-up problems in the heavy rain of qualifying - but remains confident a dry race will allow them to come back up the field. The former World Champion and rookie team-mate Kevin Magnussen will line up 12th and 15th respectively after struggling for grip in the increasingly heavy rain that dogged the Shanghai International Circuit throughout Saturday, McLaren's worst grid positions of the season.
With temperatures already having proved consistently low throughout the race weekend, Button admitted that the onset of rain just exacerbated McLaren's tyre problems.
"This is a tough track anyway with the cold...
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