Jenson Button has said his stra⛄tegy was ♒to blame after only finishing sixth in today's Turkish Grand Prix.

Button, who opted to three-stop, was running fourth in the closing stages, but on worn tyres he was powerless to fight off his team-mate, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, who both fou🦩r-stopped, and he eventually finished more than 10 seconds behind the latter.

🀅"It's a pi൲ty to finish so far back after everything in the first stint seemed to go so well," Button lamented. "Strategy-wise, I don't think we got it right today.

"My battle with Lewis [🔯early on] was great fun and there was a lot of excitement on the track, but I was disappointed to finish where I did: the car felt very good but we just went the wrong way on strategy.

"I think most people probably started the race aiming for a three-stopper, but because many of them damaged their tyres in the first stint, they changed their approach. We didn't, and I was able to put a couple of laps on everyone and my tyres still felt pretty goodꦡ - but I felt the next two stops were earlier than the tyres could have done, which is disappointing.

"We didn't leave the stops late enough - the tyres were still good at the end of every stop, so we should have stayed o✃ut longer because it just made the last stint extremely difficult.

"During the final stint, I was trying to get the best out of the car but it's so hard because the difference in pace betw🎐een a fresh and used set of tyres is so great."

McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh meanwhile concurred it was a mistake to three-stop: "Jenson was the quickest of the three-stoppers, ♚but with hindsight it♎ probably wasn't the optimal strategy, and consequently he struggled a bit - through no fault of his own."