Kobayashi was in this debut race as a drop in standby, he had everything to prove in this race to secure future race seat.
On the other hand, Button was on his quest to secure as much points as possible to win his world championship, he could not afford to crash out with a crazy young gun at all!
If you look at this clip (approx. 40 sec) of how he took out Nakajima, he was changing directions twice on the straight (which is not allowed in the F1 rule book), I was surprised that the stewards didn't take any action against Kobayashi afterwards. He has proved that he got guts, he better proves that he has the skill to accompany him, otherwise he would end up like Jean Alesi being ultra aggressive but never achieve the ultimate prize.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH__J_ffNwE |