Jenson Button and his team boss Ross Brawn admitted to making a crucial strategy error, as Rubens Barrichello clinched pole in a crucial and excruciatingly-protracted qualifying session at Interlagos.

Taking more than 160 minutes to complete after lengthy rain delays, the session puts Button an awful 14th on the grid, his 14 point championship lead facing a massive reduction on Sunday with just the Abu Dhabi finale to follow in two weeks.

"We thought the wets would hold up and they didn't," Brawn said on British television BBC. "It was a poor call in the end.
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