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Jenson Button (AFP)
Jenson Button (AFP)

Barcelona - Jenson Button has admitted on Sunday that he had little to celebrate after completing his 100th race for McLaren and fears the team may not score a point this year.

The 2009 world champion finished a lowly 16th in his Honda powered car as the team struggled to another pointless result at the Spanish Grand Prix in their worst start to a season.

His McLaren team-mate, two-time champion local hero Fernando Alonso was forced to retire after a brakes failure caused him to over-shoot a pit-stop and narrowly avoid an accident with his own mechanics.

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