Jenson Button⛎ has said h🦄is strategy 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 four-stopped♊, and he eventually finished more than 10 seconds behind the latter.

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

"My battle with Lewis [earl🎃y on]ꦇ 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 good - 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 sto🎀p, so we should have stayed out 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 between 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 hinꩲdsight it probably wasn't the optimal strategy, and consequently he struggleꦯd a bit - through no fault of his own."