Two weeks, two tyre choices and two very different results for Jenson Button
In Australia Jenson Button made a very brave tyre call that effectively won him the race, he made it work but it gave him the opportunity to win. A week later and he sat on the grid with the softer option tyres whilst everyone around him was on the harder compound – and finished the race in 8th place 2 behind Lewis Hamilton who’d started behind him on the harder tyres.
Jenson’s race didn’t get off to a flying start as he found himself behind the Ferrari’s, a stop on lap 8 put him on the harder tyres and on a clear part of the track which he used to his advantage to put in some fast times which were out of sync with his rivals and in the process he jumped most of them, but, he’s now two thirds of the way into the race on the hard tyres which have done most of the distance with his rivals just behind him on the softer and slightly faster compound. Massa passed him before the end and Alonso would have done had his engine not expired.
It seems that Jenson should have played it safe and started on the same tyres as everyone else, I can’t see how the strategy would have worked if it had rained as he’d still had to have made an extra stop. I wonder who made this tyre call – the McLaren team or Button? – whoever it was it wasn’t inspired like the one in Australia.
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