Carlos from Spain:

 The problem is with "enforced for everyone",

(1) its a rule that cannot be really enforced because teams can apply team rules in many different ways (pit stop strategy, secret codes over the radio, allocation of different car parts and packages, fuel tactics, etc, etc,etc) and the FIA cannot prove it was a team order suffiently clear to issue a penalty, so basically the only thing that enforcing that rule does is reward those that are able to lie, deceive and hide the team orders better than the others... hardly in favor of the sport.

(2) enforcing such a subjective rule turns it into yet another influencing tool in the hands of the F1-FIA who are anything but objective and independent as we have seen this year... again hardly in favor of the sport. 

So its neither truly enforced in real life since it happens in every GP, nor is it enforced the same for everyone. The rule needs to go.

 

I agree the rule has to go...but credit must be given to Rob Smedley for his honest and emotional instruction to Massa.  He must have known he'd be in trouble, but still refused to use 'coded messages'  They make a great team..Smiley

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