team orders

After Max Verstappen refused to follow Red Bull’s instruction to let Sergio Perez past at the F1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Crash.net takes a look back at five other recent controversial team order moments.

Johann Zarco may have finished as runner-up ten times in MotoGP, but Sunday’s Thailand Grand Prix was arguably the best chance of finally breaking his victory duck.

With Sergio Perez frustrated with Red Bull’s use of team orders at the Spanish Grand Prix, will the team’s internal politics benefit Max Verstappen’s F1 title pursuit in 2022?

MotoGP world championship leader Joan Mir doesn’t expect Suzuki to discuss team orders until Alex Rins is mathematically out of the title chase.

Two former world champions - Jody Scheckter and Damon Hill - debate the latest 'team orders' row to have engulfed F1 following last weekend's British Grand Prix at Silverstone. They are not entirely in agreement...

Having held his tongue for a while, controversial Red Bull motorsport advisor Dr. Helmut Marko has unleashed his latest veiled attack on Mark Webber - claiming it was only Sebastian Vettel's poor reliability in F1 2010 that allowed the Australian to challenge for the crown

F1's governing body the FIA has unveiled a raft of regulation changes for the coming seasons, from the abolition of the team orders ban to the introduction of 'greener', 1.6-litre turbocharged engines

On the eve of a race that could prove pivotal to the destiny of the F1 2010 crown, Felipe Massa has been warned that should Interlagos become Hockenheim Mark II, he will 'leave in handcuffs'...

Multiple grand prix-winner turned BBC pundit David Coulthard reckons such has been the intensity of competition, that the F1 2010 World Champion may just be 'the most deserving of all time' - and that man, he believes, will be Fernando Alonso

FIA President Jean Todt has hit out at those who suggest his regime as the head of F1's governing body is biased towards Ferrari much like his predecessor Max Mosley's was deemed to be - angrily branding any who claim as much, 'fools'

In contrast to the overwhelming condemnation of Ferrari's tactics in last month's German Grand Prix, Gerhard Berger and Nelsinho Piquet contend that the Scuderia was entirely right to use team orders at Hockenheim

Jason Plato has insisted that he would never want to benefit from team orders in his bid for glory in the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), adamant that the driver who takes the chequered flag first should be the one who deserves to do so.

Rubens Barrichello has stepped up his series of revelations about 'life at Ferrari' by claiming that he was warned to 'think about [his] contract' during the controversial 2002 Austrian Grand Prix.

It was always Ferrari's intention for Kimi Raikkonen to jump Felipe Massa during the first round of pit-stops in last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix - that is the view of former Jordan designer Gary Anderson, who suggests that team orders in Formula 1 are far from dead.