Vettel qualified fifth, but reckons he could have jumped both Red Bulls ahead of him, had Button not got in his way after the double-waved yellow flags for Fernando Alonso’s spin.

“I don’t think it’s fair, we had a yellow at the end and I don’t know why Jenson didn’t move out of the way so I couldn’t close the lap and lost a lot of time,” said Vettel.

“I think he was sleeping. I think he didn’t expect anyone to keep going [after the yellow flags] so after that he backed off, I guess, and came back to the pits.

"But going into Turn 12 he didn’t move [out of the way] and by Turn 13 he realised and did move but by then, yeah, I’d already lost quite a lot of time.

“There was no point pushing through the last corner, otherwise I think I could have been top three, easy. A bit of a shame, the car felt very good.

“I’d say I was on the same kind of lap as Nico [Rosberg, the pole winner] behind me, and he kept pushing and you could see what he did.

“We did some changes after P3, and I think they worked. The car was really coming alive, but we couldn’t show that.”

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