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**FloareTraurne** · 07-29-2010, 04:24 PM

The culture of team orders has gone on as long as F1 has been around. Perhaps you are watching the wrong form of motor racing if you can't stand team orders.

Yes team orders have been around as long as F1, but the sport has changed during that time and so have audience expectations. I don't think it is acceptable any more to have a race manipulated the way it was.

Team orders at the end of the season when the championship is on the line are one thing. But basically setting out from day 1 and using team orders to focus solely on one driver I think is going too far. Yes I know every race and every point counts towards the championship so where you draw the line is very difficult to define but in this instance, in my opinion, they went too far.

Just because a rule is difficult to enforce doesn't make the rule wrong. We all know what happened at Hockenheim even though Ferrari state otherwise. We know, the media knows, the majortity of the watching audience knew and I don't think there is anyway it was good F1. So lets try - at least for a while - to see if things can be changed.

I'd like to see an F1 where there are 24 drivers competing to be World Champions, not 12 drivers and 12 co-drivers.

07-29-2010, 04:24 PM	#35
FloareTraurne Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 553 Senior Member	The culture of team orders has gone on as long as F1 has been around. Perhaps you are watching the wrong form of motor racing if you can't stand team orders. Yes team orders have been around as long as F1, but the sport has changed during that time and so have audience expectations. I don't think it is acceptable any more to have a race manipulated the way it was. Team orders at the end of the season when the championship is on the line are one thing. But basically setting out from day 1 and using team orders to focus solely on one driver I think is going too far. Yes I know every race and every point counts towards the championship so where you draw the line is very difficult to define but in this instance, in my opinion, they went too far. Just because a rule is difficult to enforce doesn't make the rule wrong. We all know what happened at Hockenheim even though Ferrari state otherwise. We know, the media knows, the majortity of the watching audience knew and I don't think there is anyway it was good F1. So lets try - at least for a while - to see if things can be changed. I'd like to see an F1 where there are 24 drivers competing to be World Champions, not 12 drivers and 12 co-drivers.
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