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'It was damage limitation' - Button

Jenson Button's championship lead has been reduced further to eighteen and a half points, with Mark Webber now the nearest challenger, after Sunday's Grand Prix in Budapest. With Button having finished seventh, the Englishman is aware that problem must be addressed with rapid concern.

With Brawn having expected to win in Hungary, where hotter temperatures are present in comparison with those in British or Germany, the team suffered a rude awakening on Sunday by picking up only two points. "I don't know what it is but I don't think we can blame the weather," Frome's Jenson told the BBC after the race. "It is a bit colder today than it was on Friday but we have got to be looking in other areas than that."

Question marks are in the air at Brawn GP

"We have had two different updates on the car but they shouldn't unbalance the car in any way. You can say that the other teams have improved their cars, for sure; the Red Bull is a lot quicker and obviously McLaren, Ferrari and Williams have stepped up their game, but our car is not what it was to drive a few races ago."

With Rubens Barrichello having benefitted from retirements from Vettel and Alonso but affectively taken no places during the race, Button knows that his championship lead is not safe by any means. "It was damage limitation in the end but it wasn't supposed to be," he stressed. "On Friday our pace was good on the option tyre (softer, green striped compound, this weekend being Super Soft). Everybody else was struggling with rear graining and we had a very good rear end. Today my tyres were destroyed after four laps - my tyres were destroyed and I couldn't stay with the cars in front."

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