Jenson Button loses world champion in the overall standings to fourth place in Singapore on the ground: “But it’s not over yet!”
McLaren is the big loser of the Singapore night. Silver Arrows, the British had to accept a pay freeze Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button made it with the MP4-25 just once in fourth. “It was not a loose race, but I had to do all the time pressure. It’s always sad when you give full throttle all the time and it still not enough for a podium finish,” said the reigning champion.

“At the beginning I have some spared the rear tires because we had noted on Friday that they do not keep so well. That gave me some help. In the final laps of the first stint I was therefore the gap on Lewis, because with him it looked like as if he had had problems with the tires, “said Button, who in the battle for third against Mark Webber had a chance.
“After the safety car period I was on the harder tire had problems with stability on the curves and output. I could not even keep up with the Red Bull, who had 30 laps on the tires on the clock,” reports the British McLaren on the issues. “This shows how fast the were and it shows that it was not an easy race for us.”

“The race was otherwise perfect for me, everything was simply not the pit stop was perfect -.. Probably the best all year, but the balance just does not fit,” said Button. “Our car was not as good here as expected. In qualifying we can get the best, but in the race it was really hard.”
“We hope so on the new parts of Japan. They were supposed to arrive in Singapore to the car, but it happened for reasons of reliability not. In Suzuka, we will hopefully have a competitive car,” says the 30-year-old. Positive the view is now ahead: “Suzuka should suit our car better to eat well for us, Singapore was the most difficult of the routes in the final stage..”

In the overall standings button is now only a fifth, 25 points behind leader Webber. “I’m still in the process,” the British fighting spirit. “Too bad that Mark Webber was able to land before us. But we are at points just from a racing game. It is up to the last race still everything is possible. I wish back the old points system. Then we could better see how close all lie together. ”

“You have to think positive but at this stage of the season,” said Button. “Lewis had today in the duel with Webber pitch. I do not know exactly what happened there. I have only seen that Webber has him forced out clearly. One bad race can be very cost much. My points of today are important, but actually would have to stand on the podium. “

In the last race for Mark Webber Sebastian Vettel has always been a formidable adversary, but in qualifying for the Grand Prix of Germany Sebastian Vettel kept at least the third qualifying round, the upper hand. In the end, Webber huge backlog 0.556 seconds – too much for a smooth Zeitenfahren.

“I am in receipt of the first corner came a little too far in addition to the racing line,” the Red Bull driver said in an interview with the ‘BBC’. “I was simply not return to the racing line. That was my mistake, and that was not good enough.”

“I lost one position in the final laps. Before that I was third, then I lost one position to Felipe Massa. That was a pity. This was not the best qualifying, so I hope now to the race tomorrow.”

About the narrow margin of his teammates on Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso, just two thousandths of a second, says the Silverstone winner not surprised: “I knew it would be just on the short round. It would have been nice to get involved, but Seb a good job and took pole. It’s still a great day for the team. “