McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh feels harmony is the key to winning this year's Formula One world titles.
With McLaren's brand centre sandwiched between those of rivals Red Bull and Ferrari on this year's European tour, Whitmarsh can look either side of him and sense friction and discord in both camps.
Red Bull drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel have locked horns on two occasions this season, the ill will prevalent after their crash in Turkey and the front-wing controversy at Silverstone.
As for Ferrari, Felipe Massa must now be wondering about his worth to the Maranello marque after the team orders furore in Sunday's German Grand Prix.
Team principal Stefano Domenicali may protest otherwise, but by the actions taken at Hockenheim, Fernando Alonso is undoubtedly their number one driver, leaving Massa to do nothing more than play second fiddle for the remainder of this season.
Whitmarsh has already stated this week playing fair is the only way to go motor racing, believing that without tension and friction the results will come.
The in-fighting at Red Bull and now the bitter enmity likely to exist at Ferrari can only help McLaren's cause.
"We decide to race with our drivers racing," said Whitmarsh.
"In the longer term it is the healthy thing to do for this team. It is my decision and what we want to do, whereas others do what they want to do. That is up to them."
"Our modus operandi is simply to make our car as quick as we can, concentrate on that."
"We've also good harmony in our team, possibly better harmony now than our neighbours."
"We're leading the championship, but we have to accelerate the process of developing the car, I think we can do that. I think we've some good development momentum."
"Obviously I want to win this year's world championship, and the right thing to do is to concentrate on what we do, how we do it."
"We're going what we think is the right way to try and win it."
"We can look silly and maybe there will be occasions where we lose a championship, or we lose a race because we're pushing and racing, but at the moment that is the right thing to do."
As championship leader Lewis Hamilton points out, the friction inside Red Bull and Ferrari is only going to affect those teams.
"For us, our harmony allows us to focus on our job," said Hamilton.
"It's always tough in any part of life when you are trying to focus on one thing, and you've other things distracting you a little."
"As for us, we've all our resources focused on trying to hammer down, and that is a good thing for us."
Although the Hungaroring for this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix should be a circuit more suited to the McLaren, their lack of pace is a concern.
Hamilton, though, laughed off suggestions he is quaking about how fast former team-mate Alonso was at Hockenheim.
During Sunday's post-race press conference it was suggested to Alonso the reason he was facing such a grilling over the team orders situation was because people were now worried he was back in the championship.
A dismissive Hamilton said: "We're not at the point at the moment where we're worried about people catching us up or anything like that."
"We're fighting for a championship so inevitably other drivers are going to be hunting us down."
"It's easier to hunt people who are ahead of you than to defend, but we're not defending, we're hunting for that championship ourselves."
"The only concern for myself, Jenson and the team is our pace because we feel we should be quicker and we need to figure out where we are losing the time."