Button disappointed with fourth

"It wasn't exactly a perfect race, but it was by no means my worst," said Jenson Button, summing up his performance in the Korean GP. He believes that a podium was never on in the circumstances: "I had no grip at the front and had to contend with massive understeer in the last sector. That's why I couldn't get close enough to the leaders to deploy DRS. I think I used the system only once in the race."

Button maintains that the mediocre first lap, when he fell back from P3 to P6, was not the decisive factor in his eventual result: "After the start, I had Webber behind me and I was just going to brake into turn three at what I considered the right place when Massa came up on the inside and pushed me out. As a result of that, I lost a lot of positions."