Button was hoping for 'a lot more'

The McLaren driver opted for a three-stop strategy that looked to be working in his favour until the safety car periods hampered him.

In the end, Button had to settle for third position, and although he refused to consider himself unlucky, the Briton did admit he was hoping for much more.

"I don't know if you can call it unlucky," said Button. "We went for the strategy we did. On lap 16 we thought it was the right strategy to be pulling such a lead. It was great and the car felt good and I thought it would continue that way.

"The safety car mixed things up a little bit and in hindsight we should have put the hard tyre on, the prime tyre, but at that time the safety car hadn't come out."

He added: "It just didn't go our way today. It is disappointing as we didn't put a foot wrong, but it was fun. I still enjoyed the race, especially trying to pull a gap on these guys.

"It was good fun watching because when you are the third car it is good fun as the car in second has DRS. I was waiting for a move. It was either going to come off or not. Not a bad result but we obviously hoped for a lot more."