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Button: McLaren 'a hell of a long way off the pace'

May 10th, 2013 (AFP) - Jenson Button admitted that despite a raft of new parts from the McLaren team he remained "a hell of a long way off the pace" in practice for this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix. After struggling to compete in the four season-opening 'flyaway' races in Australia, Malaysia, China and Bahrain, the 2009 world champion had hoped he and McLaren would be back with a bang at the Circuit de Catalunya. But after the the opening two free practice sessions, he admitted that the progress that McLaren had made in improving the car had been lost by the equal progress made by their rivals. The 33-year-old Briton said: "Its great that we're able to turn things...
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