Jenson Button says McLaren is "right back in the hunt" after his second place at the German Grand Prix last weekend.
Having slipped to fourth in the constructors' championship, McLaren's upgrades worked well at Hockenheim to allow Button to finish second behind Fernando Alonso and move the team a point ahead of Lotus in the standings. With the Hungarian Grand Prix following immediately this weekend, Button said it's the perfect timing for McLaren to build on that result.
"The result in Germany puts us right back in the hunt," Button said. "In that situation, there's nothing better than a back-to-back weekender: you return to the cockpit almost before you've unpacked your bags from the previous race, so it's great to carry forward that momentum.
"Of course, Hungary's a very special place for me: I won my first grand prix there back in 2006, I celebrated my 200th grand prix there on the Saturday evening with some of my oldest friends and colleagues in the paddock and I went on to win the grand prix on Sunday. It was the perfect weekend."
Button added that he would need another smooth weekend to be competitive because it's so close at the front of the grid.
"There's every reason to believe we can get another good result this year. Our pace at Hockenheim gives us cause for encouragement - it's just that, as always, we'll need to run flawlessly through qualifying and the race if we're to be in the hunt at the end. That high level of performance shows just how close things currently are at the top in Formula 1. I'm satisfied that we're pushing hard enough to be up at the sharp end, so it would be fantastic to take home a winning result to reward all our recent hard work."
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