Jenson Button: “This is just the beginning”

During winter testing, the McLaren MP4-26 did not really show itself to its advantage. In Melbourne, the British team raised the bar perfectly, being the team best able to threaten the formidable Red Bull RB7. Undeniably, the nights must have been short in Woking in recent weeks.

“Two weeks ago we thought we were on pace with the Force India, declares the 2009 world champion to the Daily Mail. And finally, in qualifying, we were two seconds faster than them! When you analyze the current performance of the car and where we tell you, it's really impressive. I had never seen anything like it. You can see that now, in the team, everyone is very positive. There is a great atmosphere, because we know that for us, this is only the beginning. »

Indeed, although many teams have been working on the exhaust systems of their single-seaters for several weeks, McLaren engineers are only just starting to look into the subject. This shows the room for improvement that the MP4-26 has?

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