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I'll pull one out of the bag, promises Button

BAR-Honda's Jenson Button has vowed to bounce back from his nightmare qualifying lap today (Saturday) for the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim

Button will start tomorrow's race from 17th on the grid after making three big mistakes on his flying lap. He claimed the car's balance changed dramatically due to the increased track temperatures.

"It was a pretty terrible qualifying and very disappointing because the car is strong here," said Jenson. "I had too much oversteer throughout the lap and the car was just skating around at the back. Then in the second to last corner I made a big mistake when I got a lot of oversteer and ended up running off the circuit.

"It's strange, because we haven't made any changes from warm-up, when the car was quick and we still had more to come. I think that the track temperature increasing by six degrees probably had a big influence as that can really unsettle the handling.

"We should have been inside the top 10 today so this has compromised us for sure, but I'm confident that we'll be better in the race. I had a good race at Silverstone against all the odds so I'll have to pull another one out of the bag here tomorrow now," he vowed.

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