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Button powerless to stop passes in painful Mexican GP

Jenson Button has described his Mexican Grand Prix as 'painful' as McLaren-Honda's top speed deficit was again made plainly clear down the home straight at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, even if he remains encouraged by the chassis potential. Starting from the back of the grid after failing to make it out for qualifying, though Button fared better than team-mate Fernando Alonso – who retired on the opening lap – by reaching the chequered flag, he was never in top ten contention. Made to look particularly slow down the 1.2km home straight, as cars behind used DRS and deployment to ease past with a '45kph advantage', Button says McLaren-Honda's work is far from done. “[The race was]...
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