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Button “realistic” about race on home soil

After a challenging qualifying session at Silverstone that saw the likes of Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso be eliminated in the early stages, Jenson Button weathered the storm and showed his composure to capture third place on the grid for tomorrow’s race. The 2009 Champion was urged on by the team and try and get the maximum result possible: “I said to the guys on the radio that I had wheelspin on fifth gear on the straight and that it wasn't going to happen. They said to push and that I wasn’t going to lose.” Even in the first session, Button switched to slick tyres early on in Q1, and went fastest in sector 2 by nearly six seconds, showing that as the track was...
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