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Button coped with “45kph” deficit in Russian GP
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Jenson Button said Honda’s energy deployment woes left him and team-mate Fernando Alonso as “sitting ducks” during the Russian Grand Prix, as the pair sometimes had to cope with a 45kph deficit. McLaren-Honda had travelled to Sochi with little expectations but saw its two MP4-30s round up the top 10 on the road, although Alonso was then demoted to 11th because of a five-second penalty for exceeding track limits. While Button made the most of an attrition race to climb to P9 by the chequered flag, the Briton admits he spent the entire afternoon fighting a rearguard action. “A big thing for us is deployment and fuel saving because we’re not deploying for very...
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