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Button "much happier" with car despite costly incident

Jenson Button admitted he was "much happier" with his McLaren despite a brush with the wall in qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix left him out of the top 10. Button had to bale out of his final lap in Q2 in Singapore after breaking his left rear wheel in a brush with the wall. Button was left in 13th place, four spots behind McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso. The Briton said initially he did not think the contact was hard enough to stop his session. "I tapped the wall out of Turn 14, and I didn't even think it was an issue," he said. "I thought I'd just scuffed the paint off the concrete barrier. "But it broke the wheel and gave me a puncture. It's a pain,...
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