Abu Dhabi GP: McLaren race quotes

Jenson Button 12th: "You make your own luck when you start down in 12th - where first-lap congestion is inevitable - and, sure enough, there was a little bit of argy-bargy into Turn 1. I duly locked up both my front tyres, couldn't slow the car down sufficiently, and drove into the back of Paul [di Resta], which broke my front-wing end-plate. It's a real pity to keep on having first-lap incidents, especially when the car is working reasonably well now. I've been in a similar situation for the past two races, and things haven't really gone my way. Still, I managed 44 laps on the prime - and, in terms of getting the most out of what we had, that felt positive. So, all in all, given how far behind we were after lap two [when he made his unscheduled early pit-stop], to finish so close to 10th by the chequer wasn't so bad."

Martin Whitmarsh - team principal: "Checo was unfortunate in that he spent a lot of the race stuck behind slower cars - and, although he showed his fighting spirit at the end by passing Adrian for ninth place, ultimately his was a disappointing result. Jenson was unlucky to incur front-wing damage at the start, as a result of contact with another car, triggering an unscheduled early pitstop. However, thereafter he did a truly brilliant job of tyre management, running the Prime for an extremely impressive 44 laps. Had that early mishap not occurred - and had he instead been able to drive the first 44 laps of the race on the prime - undoubtedly he'd have been able to finish very strongly and thereby score a decent number of world championship points. So that was a great pity, because as I say he drove beautifully and in my view a performance of that quality deserves to be rewarded with world championship points. But that's racing. From here we travel to Austin, where we hope that Formula 1 will once again put on a spectacular show in a market that's full of avid racing fans and is of course also crucial to most if not all of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes' many partners."