World champion Jenson Button on Wednesday had a "frustrating" opening day at the wheel of his 2010 mount.


The Briton's first try of the new McLaren, because he is 7cm taller than his teammate Lewis Hamilton, was delayed due to difficulties with his seating position, and when he did hit the Ricardo Tormo circuit he was still sitting too high.

He then finished as just the tenth quickest driver of the three-day schedule, and markedly off teammate Hamilton's pace in the same MP4-25.

"This test was always to get used to the environment inside the cockpit, get used to the team and to run through all of the checks you do at the first test," said the 30-year-old.

He declined to say that McLaren's new car is a "great" one.

"There is a lot more to get my head round here, to work on, before I would (say that)," said Button.

Button also played down Ferrari's dominance of the Valencia test.

"Ferrari are fast but we don't know how fast. You never know what fuel they are running when they do those times," he said.

Fernando Alonso, having set the fastest time of the test in front of a record crowd of more than 36,000, also played down the obvious speed of the F10.

"I'm happy to be in the car, but I remain cautious," he said.

"I think maybe if we topped the times (on all) the three days (it) is related to fuel load or whatever," Alonso added. "But I found the car easy to drive and I feel good."

The Spanish media then quoted him as saying ominously that he did not extract "100 per cent" of the car's performance at Valencia.



Source: GMM

 

Someone needs to tell Eyebrows to shut the F!@K up and just drive.

 

Glad to see Button is showing everyone what he's made of...

 

Eyebrows, mr potato head call him what you want he'll whip Lewis

 

Like he did back when he was at McLaren and the two years afterward?

 

You guys are all arguing about second place...

 

He will whip a lot of them... No better driver for getting the most out of a car except Schumi....

All the Alonso haters will hate him more after this season.. He is great at setting up a car. Look what he got out of the crappy Renault...

Haters beware.. Alonso will be on the Podium many times this year if the car is reliable.

Go Red

Oh yeah and if your playing Fantasy F1... Don't let your heart get in the way of picking the right drivers... It's a curse...

Hey I even had Hamilton on my team last year for a few races... Ahhhhhhhh.... But it made sense at the time...

 

He didn't do much last year and the year before that there was Piquet to help him out.

 

Can say the same about several drivers that don't have the car under them.. With that piece of crap car last year I think he did pretty well....

Oh and when Piquet helped him he did fine

He was just waiting for a Ferrari seat to open.. Everyone knew he was going there 2 years ago..

It will be an interesting season... The best part is it is not far away

 

Friggin Jense. If he can't make the MP4-25 work as well as Lewis, I just don't know what to say. He signed a 1 year contract, right.