McLaren, Button: “The car wasn't bad, but we had the wrong strategy”

In the Australian GP, ​​McLaren-Honda seemed more alive and present than the disastrous team that was in 2015, but the points remained distant in Melbourne. Fernando Alonso was involved in a bad accident with the Mexican Gutierrez, emerging unscathed from his MP4-31 after a terrible flight into the barriers.

The GP was much calmer Jenson Button, even if McLaren made the wrong "calls" with the English driver, choosing the wrong strategy, which compromised the Englishman's race. For Button, as for the Ferraris, the mistake of restarting after the stop on supersoft tyres, a choice which forced him to stop again.

“First of all I'm relieved to see Fernando on his own two feet after an accident of this magnitude, these cars are unpredictable when you touch the tyres, you take off in a flash - commented Button - In any case, my car wasn't bad, but I think we had the wrong race strategy, we weren't perfect in the pit calls... The red flag damaged us quite a bit, then we went out with tires that were too soft and we had to stop again . On this track it's easy to make up the gap, but difficult to overtake, so after the last pit stop I couldn't help but join the group."

Antonino Rendina

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