It screwed me a little bit for the straight. I turned into the last corner, I got oversteer-you can't see it on the TV-and I lost traction on the exit. I was doing mid-31s most of the time from then on.'īutton said he had no chance to stop Hamilton passing him back: 'I got a bad exit onto the last corner because I was on the outside through Turn 12, I picked up some stuff on my tires, I think. 'Afterwards we were told you still need to conserve fuel, I was told it was critical. It was a fun battle to have with your teammate, who you have a lot of respect for. We had a lot of fun and we were wheel to wheel. It's not like I overtook him and he let me have the position. I completely believe that when I came up behind Lewis on the exit of turn eight, he knew that I was closing on him and he understood that I was going to try and pass him. Lewis had done a 1 minute, 33 seconds, so he was 2 seconds off the lap time we were given. So it wasn't that I went quicker to overtake him. I passed him on lap 48 and I did a 1 minute, 30.85 seconds, so almost a 31 seconds-you can't judge the lap time exactly. That was a 1 minute, 31 seconds on lap 46. I was told to save fuel I was given a lap time. 'I was there to race, and Lewis was there to race. 'It was definitely a miscommunication,' said Button.

The team has subsequently said that answer was an opinion, rather than any reflection of instructions given to either driver. Hamilton had asked his engineer whether Button would try to pass and was told he wouldn't. Jenson Button confirms that as far as he was concerned, he was racing Lewis Hamilton when the pair traded places in Turkey, and only a miscommunication led Lewis to not expect an attack from his teammate.

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