Team orders ban dropped from next season...

[nigelred5]

Good end to a stupid rule IMHO. This year proved that either/neither choice has the potential to yield unintended results.

[Koz]

Mmmmmm...

Why do the FIA feel the need to add this:

Team orders are now allowed. The article forbidding team orders (39.1) has been deleted from the rule book.

If a team use team orders now, how can that be seen as bringing the sport into disrepute

To avoid the crap that Flavio and Nelsinho pulled.

[Tazio]

To avoid the crap that Flavio, Nelsinho, and "the big bad boo man pulled".

Edited for accuracy

[Cooper_S]

The rule WAS enforceable, the FIA just chose not to really enforce it :

Slight correction, the rule was enforcable ONLY on a team being stupid enough to make it obvious, 99% of the time teams are far more subtle and without any proof (laywers tend to like little stuff like that) the FIA are powerless to act.

Good call rom the FIA... I wonder how Horner will play it next season now.

[Zico]

The FIA also said on Friday that all team radio communications will be made available to broadcasters from the 2012 season. Great for us, bad for the teams! And for PR as well, every petulant remark by every driver will be available to the media. Should make for some interesting debates on here.

I can imagine incidents like Alonso's outburst at Petrov being converted into ringtones globally

[markabilly]

I thought team orders were already permitted last season, one just had to pay a $100k fee to use them blantantly and nothing if they did them with a proper secret code......

Next year sounds like it will be really boring, with fewer and fewer controversies


opps no humor allowed in f1 forum....my apologies

[mstillhere]

Slight correction, the rule was enforcable ONLY on a team being stupid enough to make it obvious, 99% of the time teams are far more subtle and without any proof (laywers tend to like little stuff like that) the FIA are powerless to act.

Good call rom the FIA... I wonder how Horner will play it next season now.

Bravo

[maximilian]

Slight correction, the rule was enforcable ONLY on a team being stupid enough to make it obvious

True, so at least when it WAS obvious they SHOULD have taken more severe measures instead of just selling points.

[Cooper_S]

Team orders only work (as in undetected) when the two drivers co-operate,

If in the future a driver should choose point blank to disobey his team he risks being sacked from the team, but how many other teams would hire that driver knowing he will not take orders. It could be a career ending stand.

In the case of Webber that is less a problem given he is coming to the end of his F1 career but younger drivers need to consider carefully their actions in such a situation.

[ioan]

Good call rom the FIA... I wonder how Horner will play it next season now.

Just like he did this season, and I hope they win again.