Jenson Button thinks Sebastian Vettel was wrong to flout team orders in Malaysia

Jenson Button has said he wouldn't have 'done a Vettel' and flouted team orders in the way the World Champion did in Malaysia, the 2009 title winner also expressing surprise at the controversial decision his successor made.

Of course, Button knows all too well what can happen to a team's best-laid plans: he and then team-mate Lewis Hamilton defied McLaren and battled for the lead of the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix, ironically after Vettel and Webber had collided whilst doing the same. However, Button said that situation was different because McLaren had - unlike Red Bull - issued the order incorrectly. "We had that in Turkey with Lewis and myself after the Red Bulls crashed into each other. We had a miscommunication because Lewis was told to save fuel and I was supposed to be told - but I wasn't," he explained. "I overtook him. He got angry and overtook me; we had a good little scrap and then I was told to hold station and save fuel. "He didn't have enough fuel to push to the end. It was the right thing for us to do, to hold station. "If I'd have tried to overtake him, I'd have run out of fuel as well." Button blamed the decision taken by some teams to issue orders so early in the season on the need to manage tyres and fuel. Also in Malaysia, Mercedes ordered Nico Rosberg not to pass Hamilton in the closing stages, even though the German - running fourth at the time - felt he had a faster car than his team-mate, who was again saving fuel. "I think the reason there are team orders now is because of the tyres. It's a great excuse I know, but because certain teams have to look after tyres quite a bit...Webber was holding station because he was looking after his tyres," Button said. "If both drivers aren't doing the same, you end up fighting each other and destroying each other's race. "That's the way the system is at the moment with fuel saving and tyre saving: these ideas are coming up in the teams as team orders. Button added: "The worrying thing is that if you get to the last pit stop and the guy leading is the guy that wins the race, basically you hammer the first part of the race: you use as much fuel as you want, you pit before your team-mate, you come out in front of him...and that's it. You just cruise home. "I'm hoping that that isn't going to be the way from now on."