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] put the car in a good place and we threw it all away.”
Team-mate Kevin Magnussen ran the same strategy, but believes the team were right to take a gamble with him because of his pitlane start.
“I know we took a risk to wait for more rain, but I think we had to take that risk.
“I don’t think things would’ve been much different if we’d made a different strategy call, but we now need to sit down with the engineers and strategists to discuss it.”
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