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Button unhappy with timing and traffic

Jenson Button feels McLaren's poor timing cost him in qualifying for the United States GP as it meant he had traffic, most notably in Jolyon Palmer. Button failed to progress through Q1 at the Circuit of the Americas as his best time, a 1:38.327, was only good enough for 19th place. The Brit was heard complaining about his lap to his McLaren pitwall, saying there was 'traffic on the racing line.' However, Button says McLaren were partly to blame for that. 'We mistimed the lap and got it wrong and it's annoying because we did it two races ago in Malaysia as well,' he said. 'It means I'm doing my timed lap when other people are doing their outlap, so we've got to stop doing that because it's...
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