There was an amusingly awkward moment at the start of last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, when Jake Humphrey made a bit of a joke, which Jenson Button really didn’t get. The exchange – still on the BBC iPlayer until Sunday – went something like this:

JH: [to camera] I’m sure you’re as excited as I am about hanging out with a couple of guys who we all enjoyed hearing from last season, and here they are: Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, the two most recent Formula 1 World Champions. [to JB] Which one are you then, DC or EJ?

JB: I’m Jenson.

JH: [laughs] Good. And you’ll be hoping to prove you are Jenson the Formula 1 World Champion this year.

It wasn’t a particularly sophisticated or complicated joke to go along with, but no. Button looked completely blank, then as Humphrey went on to talk to Hamilton, turned to the camera, gurned and pointed at Humphrey as if to say, “What’s he like, eh?” It was very odd. Look:

It’s the one fault that can be levelled at Humphrey’s presentation of the BBC‘s Formula 1 coverage: sometimes he makes little comments or jokes that no-one else gets. At all.

He’s not wrong to make them, but everyone else in Formula 1 seems utterly oblivious to his sense of humour. Which kind of amuses me, so the effect is the same, and everyone’s a winner.