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Button: Small step forward

Jenson Button believes that the Malaysian Grand Prix will go better for the Honda team after a thoroughly disappointing season-opener at Melbourne. Button will be praying that his RA107 can beat the fifteenth place that he scored in Australia and after completing a total of 156 laps at the Sepang test this week he is confident that the team has made some positive progress, although there is still much to be improved.

"We have run through a lot of test items this week," the Briton said.

"Mainly with new aero parts, trying to resolve some of the issues we had in Australia.

"The car definitely works better around the Sepang circuit, partly because braking stability is not as important here but also because we have made some improvements over the week.

"We have by no means solved everything yet and there is a long way to go but we have made a small step in the right direction. The weather has been up and down over my test days so I've also had the chance to experience some wet testing for the first time in the RA107 car," he added.

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