How McLaren could have beaten Vettel at Monza
Sebastian Vettel got everything right at Monza, but as Adam Cooper found out, McLaren left Italy convinced that a second and fourth was far less than its cars had deserved given their race pace...
So could McLaren have won the Italian Grand Prix? On balance the answer has to be yes.
But for the second race in a row the team didn't quite get everything right, while Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull did, and in so doing put an end to the cliche of Monza as a circuit that doesn't suit the dark blue cars.
At Spa Jenson Button's poor qualifying position - the result of a miscommunication - left him with an impossible job.
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