A lap of the Hungaroring with Jenson Button:

"I will approach the first corner at the maximum speed of the circuit in top gear. However, this is only 295km/h, a big difference from our last race at Hockenheim. The first corner is taken in third gear and I will apex at around 125km/h. It is a very long corner and as the circuit drops away the car is very prone to understeer and our set-up will be bias towards removing this."

"Approaching turn two I will briefly get into fourth gear at around 230km/h before dropping down to second gear take this left-hand corner at around 92km/h. The third corner is a fast right-hand corner, which I will hope to take flat in qualifying in fourth gear at 210km/h."

"At the end of the next straight I will be doing around 280km/h in sixth before going down to fourth gear and around 185km/h for the relatively fast left-hander. This is immediately followed by turn five where I will go down to third gear at 130km/h. Accelerating out of this corner I will very briefly get into fifth gear at just under 240km/h before once again dropping down to second gear and around 92km/h for turn six."

"I will approach turn seven in third gear at around 205km/h and will then hold third gear all the way through this double corner taking the first part at just under 130km/h and the second part at just over 140km/h."

"I will take turn nine in fifth gear at 255km/h and brake reasonably gently and go down to fourth gear at 180km/h for this corner. Again I will momentarily get into fifth gear and 250km/h before turn ten, which I will take in third gear at 155km/h. I will reach a very similar speed on the entry to turn 11, as I had on entry to turn 10, but have to brake much harder as I enter the slowest corner of the circuit left-hander behind the pits, which is taken in second at just over 80km/h."

"For the final corner I will get up to just under 200km/h before entering this long corner, in third gear I will apex at 120km/h. Once again this is a long corner and the car will tend to have understeer but the exit is very important to get on to the pit straight well."

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