Sebastian Vettel unhappy with Jenson Button after qualifying

Sebastian Vettel has said that Jenson Button cost him a chance at being in the top three in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The German could only manage fifth after getting caught behind a slow Button towards the end of the session.

"I don't think it's fair [the result]," said Vettel after qualifying "We had the yellow flag in the end, and then Jenson didn't move out of the way, so otherwise I think we could have been top-three easily."

"I think he was sleeping. He didn't expect anyone to keep going, so he backed off," he added. "But going into Turn 12, he didn't move [out of the way], and by Turn 13 he had realised and did move, but by then I had lost a lot of time already.

"I was on the same lap as Nico [Rosberg] and you saw what he did."

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