I've looked it up. Not online, but properly, in an old-fashioned, big book. A dictionary - remember them? - and I quote, 'Teammate [noun] a fellow member of a team'.
No great surprise there then, but it might be worth showing it to the Red Bull team as they head to Montreal for this weekend's grand prix.
Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel are keen to let the world know that they have put the unfortunate events of the last grand prix behind them. There isn't a much more unfortunate event than crashing with your teammate when you are first and second in a race. It's worse when you had an increasingly iron grip on the season. Lewis Hamilton must have been laughing all the way to the chequered flag.
Pit garages and the nearby motor homes can be tense places at the best of times on race days, but I'd like to have been an anonymous witness to the post-race goings on at Red Bull. I imagine it must have been an agony to wait for Webber to come off the podium and for the inquest to begin. You can only imagine the sparks that flew in some dark corner of the paddock.
Webber is known for his straight talking and Vettel is no shrinking violet. With opinion split as to who was to blame, you can be sure that no one was backing down.
The most important thing is how it develops from here. Has the air really been cleared? The history of the sport is littered with fabulously intense feuds between drivers sitting in the same pit garage. Most recently it was Hamilton and Alonso; most famously it was Senna and Prost. Christian Horner, the Red Bull team boss, will have his work cut out ensuring the pair don't fall out again while keeping their fierce competitive edge.
