Jenson Button admits dominant start to 2013 for one driver last thing McLaren need

Jenson Button has admitted it is imperative for underperforming McLaren that the start of the season produces as many different race winners as possible if they are to stay in realistic title contention while working through the problems with their MP4-28.

"We don't know what the future holds. At the moment we've got a car and we're trying to make the best of what we have. "McLaren is a front-running team and they know how to develop cars. Developing this, we're obviously not where we would like to be, but we do know the curve of improvements hopefully will be far greater than what other people can find. Well, it needs to be!" Indeed, it is understood that even if McLaren were contemplating reintroducing their 2012 challenger, the process wouldn't be as straightforward as simply bringing the car out of storage and putting it back on the race track. Speaking during Sky Sports Online's F1 Midweek Report show, Anthony Rowlinson, the editor of F1 Racing magazine, said: "The main problem they have with that is they can't just do that: they would have to re-crash test the MP4-27, have a new front wing that's compliant with the new technical regs, have a new underfloor that's compliant with the new technical regs. "They're subtly different but last year's car isn't automatically legal for this year. That in itself is a big job and then they'd arrive, say in Spain for the Spanish GP, for a car they hadn't tested, they hadn't run, so they'd probably be in no better a situation than they are now." In the more immediate term, Button, meanwhile, has reiterated optimism that the MP4-28 might already be more suited to the Sepang circuit this weekend. "We've got to just focus on finding a good set-up for here. It's obviously a very different circuit and maybe we won't have such big issues," he said. "A few of our issues - it was plain to see - were ride at the last race and it shouldn't be such a problem here with the smoother circuit. The higher temperatures should hopefully help us with tyre temperature as well."