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Jenson Button remains as quick as ever, says F1 Racing's Matt Bishop, but a few bad decisions a little while back have left him marooned at Honda and snookered from the sport's top drives...
Jenson Button qualified third for the season's first Grand Prix, second for its second, first for its third, and second for its fourth. And if his race results in Bahrain, Malaysia, Australia and San Marino weren't quite as splendid as his one-lap work - he finished fourth at Sakhir, third at Sepang, tenth at Albert Park and seventh at Imola - then they were a dream compared with what he went on to record in the next four Grands Prix.
At Nurburgring, Button qualified sixth and failed to finish; at Barcelona, he qualified eighth and finished sixth; at Monaco, he qualified 13th and finished 11th; and at Silverstone. he qualified 19th and failed to finish. Moreover, as those stats suggest, the trend is an inexorably and relentlessly downward one.
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