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McLaren ‘messed up’ in Japanese GP qualifying: Button
Suzuka: Mclaren messed up with their tactics in their qualifying session for the Japanese Grand Prix, driver Jenson Button said on Saturday.
Button qualified 16th at the Suzuka circuit, although he reckons he might have made it out of Q1 but for the yellow flags which came out towards the end of the session when Max Verstappen’s Toro Rosso stopped on the track.
Button was particularly displeased with the team’s failure to communicate a message to switch the engine mode on his car ahead of his first flying lap.
“There was a yellow flag in the middle sector so obviously I had to lift. Without that I probably would have got through,” he was quoted as saying by Sky Sports after the qualifying session.
“On my first run I wasn’t told what engine mode to be in – every time before our timed lap we’re told before we start – and I wasn’t told. So I went to the wrong setting and it emptied the pack after half a lap.”
Button also said the intense competition among the teams means that any errors will be punished even more than usual.
“The car didn’t feel too bad to drive, but you need to get everything out of it; you can’t make a single mistake. Even getting the front wing just half a turn out; everything has to be right,” he added.
“Then you have a chance of doing something at least. We definitely messed up today.”
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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