Jenson Button admits 'no one knows' if McLaren will win a race before 2013 is out

Jenson Button has cast doubt on whether underperforming McLaren will win a race this season in wake of their continuing struggles to make a frontrunning breakthrough with their MP4-28.

Button's own deficit in the Drivers' Championship to Sebastian Vettel is already more than the equivalent of four race victories and the 2009 title winner has unsurprisingly conceded that his hopes of a second championship will also now have to wait until next year. However, while he admitted to Sky Sports F1 on Sunday that McLaren had a "massive" gap to close to be back at the front, he has reiterated his faith in the resources at the Woking outfit to ultimately turn things around. "I'm still in a great team, probably the best team to find your way out of a situation like this. It will happen. It just takes time," the 33-year-old added. "We have a lot of talented people in this team, people who will find answers, and find a way back to the front. And it will be so much sweeter when it happens."