Championship leader Jenson Button is under no illusions as to the task ahead of him in today's Brazilian Grand Prix, saying he needs a "hell of a race" if he is to clinch the title at Interlagos and prevent a last round shootout.
Button suffered a nightmare qualifying session in Brazil, managing to finish only 14th for the grid today after failing to switch to intermediate tyres at the right time. Meanwhile his team mate and closest title rival Rubens Barrichello has taken pole position for the race.
"It is going to have to be a hell of a race from me, and I don't want to just be picking up a couple of points," Button moaned at the end of the qualifying session in Brazil.
"I want a much better result than that, so I am going to be fighting tomorrow - as I am sure there will be a couple of other people fighting through the back.
"With the weather I don't know what is going to happen. I would rather it was dry. We have a very good pace in the dry, and there are good possibilities for overtaking so I think it could be a fun race in the dry – and it is a going to be a hell of a race."
Button insisted that he wanted to get the title wrapped up as soon as possible, and said that the whole qualifying session had been a frustrating experience.
"You want it done as soon as possible, for sure," he sulked, "Today was frustrating. We felt we had very good pace in the wet this morning, and also in Q1. So it is just frustrating.
"Yeah, it is difficult to know where the pace went really. And it is the smallest of set-up changes that made a massive difference in qualifying. I suppose you could say it was a slightly wrong call – but when you make a set-up change like we did with the tyre pressures it should not be that big. But we found that it was."
Intriguingly, Button also admitted that he did not know whether his team mate Barrichello had run with different tyre pressures in Q2, when the Brazilian's pace was comfortably faster than Button's, saying that he had been "too pissed off" to ask his engineers.
"I don't know," he said about the set-ups, "You will have to ask the engineers [that]. I haven't asked the question yet, I have been too pissed off to ask any serious questions. But we will run through all the information tonight.
"We've had to do our fuel load so that is what we have been concentrating on most of all, for tomorrow. It could be wet, it could be dry tomorrow. It is a tough one but we have the option to choose fuel loads, and we will see hopefully quite soon what people are running. That is the only positive you can take from starting where we are."
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