Button: Bold strategies will be hard to make work because everyone is doing them

McLaren driver Button only managed 12th on the Monte Carlo grid after a puzzling struggle for pace on Saturday afternoon.

With the Spanish GP-winning Williams of Pastor Maldonado starting on the back row, Kimi Raikkonen's rapid Lotus eighth and points leader Sebastian Vettel ninth, Button thinks there will be various drivers trying gambles like the one-stop strategy Vettel pulled off on the way to winning the 2011 race.

"The problem is I don't think I'm going to be the first car that's thinking about doing another strategy," said Button.

"What Sebastian did in Q3 proves that he was looking at doing the strategy he did last year, which I think is probably what he's going to plan on, which I think makes the race very difficult for everyone behind if they were thinking of doing something different.

"But I do think we've got to try something a little bit different."

Having struggled for race pace in recent rounds, Button said he hoped that he could at least make some progress with solving his current issues during the Monaco GP.

"I'm obviously doing something wrong and I've just got to work out what it is," he said. "Maybe it's in terms of setting the car up, and it's something I've got to sort out sooner rather than later because I'm losing a lot of points, especially over the last couple of races.

"We've got to find the issues and move forward. I'm confident that we can, it's not getting me down that much.

"I'm looking forward to having a good race, finding out more as we go along, and finding a balance and grip that suits me."