Button ready to charge from fourth
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Jenson Button will start from fourth on the grid © Sutton Images
Jenson Button will treat the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as he would any other race, despite qualifying in the middle of the championship leaders.
Button will start from fourth on the grid, directly behind championship leader Fernando Alonso but ahead of Mark Webber.
His McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton can still win the championship if he finishes first, with Sebastian Vettel third or worse, Mark Webber sixth or worse and Alonso outside the points. But Button said his only goal was to do the best he can and keep McLaren ahead of Ferrari in the constructors' race.
"Second in the constructors' is important to the team even though we can't win it, so that's the aim for tomorrow," Button is quoted by Autosport.com."It's very difficult for Lewis to win the championship unless the other three guys pretty much aren't in the race, so it's just a case of get as many points as I can, and I'm looking forward to it. [Hamilton] still needs 24 points and me finishing in front of Alonso, so unless I'm finishing ninth, it doesn't really help Lewis.
"We're among the championship contenders, which you could say means we're going to be in their way, but we can't hold back, so we're going to be out there trying to get as many points as we can."
During Friday practice McLaren was using Button's car as a test mule for a low downforce set-up, while Hamilton focused on a higher downforce and quicker set-up. Button said the car was significantly better in qualifying after he swapped to Hamilton's set-up.
"It was much better than yesterday - I was nowhere yesterday," he added. "Q3 was very good, Q2 was reasonably good. In Q1 I had a massive brake vibration issue that I was struggling with. It got better through qualifying, but I still had a vibration, which doesn't help with the front locking problem. I'm happy with the car, it's just a pity on that last lap I went off the circuit in the last sector.
"Yesterday I was really struggling with the car with lower downforce. Today we put the same downforce level on that Lewis is running and it seems good, I'm pretty happy with the car. I've been tweaking the car all day and I've made a big leap from where I was yesterday."
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