Ed Straw

where things just break down or there's a blind spot or they go too far or whatever.

But it's a question of, is it more positive than negative?

And in Webber's case, it was certainly more positive than negative.

Because if he didn't have that, he probably wouldn't be in that Red Bull in the first place.

He probably wouldn't have even started a few Grand Prix with Minardi, let alone built that into the career he did have.

Yeah, it was great, wasn't it?

They could easily have had a collision, a proper collision at the first corner when they were battling.

But they didn't because even though, you know, Button was happy to try it on, he also knew he didn't want to cause a crash.

And Hamilton obviously wants to.

So, yeah, it's a good exhibition of how this can be done.

It's perhaps not such a good exhibition of how you manage that and communicate things.

But there's nothing wrong with anything they did on track in terms of the wheel-to-wheel stuff.

It would have made this episode a lot longer, I think, as well.

Yeah, you can understand it as well.

Because if you're slowing down, you want to know if your teammate's going to attack or not.

Yeah, absolutely.

And...

Obviously, they should have managed it better, but Button will have known probably that Hamilton would have felt that he wasn't going to be attacked.

And perhaps Button thought it would be within his armoury to think this would annoy him because they're racing drivers, they're competing.

And that's why I don't have any problem with what either of them do or how either of them felt about it.