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McLaren: Improvement from Australia bigger than it looks
McLaren received a boost to its morale after an improved qualifying performance at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Saturday. Though Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso weree both knocked out in Q1 and will start in P17 and P18 on the grid, the deficit to Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, who led the first segment of qualifying, was slashed compared to the difference in Melbourne – even if the timesheet only shows an improvement of 0.5 seconds. 'It's actually quite a bit bigger than that,' protested Button. 'In Q1 in Australia Mercedes didn't run the option tyre, they only ran primes. 'You would say it's 1.6 seconds or something, so it's a lot bigger than what you see.' Alonso, returning to the...
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