Jenson Button has dismissed suggestions that his victory in China was down to luck, saying the team made the right call at the right moment.

The World Champion started fifth on the grid at Shanghai, but his decision to stay on slicks when everyone else pitted for intermediates coupled with a spin from Nico Rosberg saw him move to P1 on lap 20.

He never relinquished that position and insisted after the race that his victory was down to the team's ability to make the correct decisions when it mattered. "It is not luck we came out on top today. We chose correctly in the conditions"...

"It is not luck we came out on top today," he said. "We chose correctly in the conditions. The start was the right call definitely but it was slippery and we knew how quickly the soft tyres would be working"

"It was the right call. My first few months with the team have been extraordinary. I feel a real part of the team now."
A second Safety Car was deployed shortly after Button took the lead and the McLaren driver admits it played a big role in keeping things interesting.

"Really important, it made the race," he said. "If we didn't have the Safety Car later in the race for debris we would have been a long way up. The Safety Car definitely helped the situation for those who stopped for inters.

"Staying on dries was the right thing, you wouldn't think it was, but they were good, you just had to be a bit careful. Definitely the right call and then when the team called me in the lap was the right call. The tyres had started graining so it was too wet for slicks."

His Chinese Grand Prix win was Button's second as a McLaren driver.

"For me, it is my best victory - every one you win becomes your best victory but this was pretty tough conditions," the 30-year-old said.

"The good thing is our pace was very good today. It wasn't just the call of weather, it was good pace. At the end we were two seconds a lap quicker than other people. We do not know where we are in the dry, but we will forget about it at the moment."