McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh has claimed that his team had the fastest car at the Italian Grand Prix. 

After qualifying second and third respectively, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button suffered disappointing starts on Sunday.

Whitmarsh believes that this is what cost his drivers, stating that it was deeply frustrating that they could not challenge comfortable winner Sebastian Vettel.

He said: “Our cars were the quickest of the lot. Lewis posted fastest lap, while Jenson took second-fastest lap – but unfortunately our drivers didn’t get off to good enough starts.”

“The result was that they spent much of the race stuck behind Michael (Schumacher), whose Mercedes-Benz was remarkably quick in a straight line and extremely ‘wide’ on the approaches to the corners.”

“Meanwhile, Seb [Vettel] was able to pull away, which was deeply frustrating for us because we knew we had the pace to take the race to him, had our guys got off to better starts.”

“But that’s motor racing: you’ve got to qualify well, start well and race well.”

“Well, this weekend we qualified pretty well, we raced very well, but we didn’t start well enough.”

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