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F1 China 2013: Button hopes for tyre gambit boost
Jenson Button will start the 2013 F1 Grand Prix of China from eighth place on the grid, but he does so knowing that all the cars ahead of him will be on the short-lived soft option tyres - and the Briton is hoping that this will give him a crucial advantage over the rest of the field early in the race “Our aim was to be the first Prime-tyre runner on the grid, even if it meant qualifying tenth," he explained after the end of a tense qualifying dominated by tyre management strategies. "And we did that. This was the best we could do with what we have." Button was helped by Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel outbraking himself into turn 14 on his own sole qualifying run of Q3,...
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