Last year's race winner Jenson Button, who finished eighth in the first session, backed the call to postpone qualifying.
“That level of disruption creates quite a lot of mental and psychological stress... but I believe the FIA had no choice. It was the right call to postpone Q2 and Q3 until tomorrow, for safety reasons,” he said.
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