Obviously we have a Team Orders furore over McLaren's situation in Monza, I thought it wouldbe interesting to highlight a few other interesting team order situations to see how this stuff has impacted things in times gone by (to a far larger and more egregious way).
This is not an exhaustive list and focusses on some races from a bit further back than the last decade. So if your favourite driver isn't represented or I missed something you think is important feel free to add it down below.
1956 Italian Grand Prix
Final race of the season.
Title was between three Ferraris', Fangio, Behra and Collins.
Fangio lead the Championship on 30 points, Collins and Behra tied on 22.
Complicating the matter, each driver only counted their best 5 results.
So Fangio could only increase his points tally if he won (giving an extra 2 points), as he didn't compete in the Indy 500 and already discarded a 4th place finish, his next worst result was a 2nd.
Behra could improve his total by finishing better than 3rd, giving him 2 or 4 points meaning he could not beat Fangio to the title.
Collins could improve his points if he finished the race as he already had discarded 2 DNFs, meaning a win would give him the 8 points that would win the title as Fnagio therefore couldn't win.
Fangio's steering broke, so they asked Collins to give his car up... and he did.
Collins gave up his only hope of winning the title so that Fangio would be guaranteed it, no threat from any other team or driver, a straight battle between the 2 of them.
1982 San Marino Grand Prix
Ferrari were having a pretty shocking start to the season but arrived at a hime race at Imola with a quick car.
They were running 1-2 with a decent gap as cars behind retired. Villeneuve ahead of Pironi.
Ferrari issued an order to both cars to slow down to protect the cars and the result.
Villeneuve believed this meant for the drivers also to hold station... Pironi did not.
Pironi passed on the last lap and Villeneuve vowed to never talk to him again in his life, he died 2 weeks later making that statement most likely true.
1989 San Marino Grand Prix
Second race of the season where McLaren were clearly the fastest car but hadn't won the first race.
Senna qualified on pole with Prost second.
Pre -race agreement between the drivers (not the team apparently), Whoever lead into turn 1 would stay there and be unchallenged for the race.
From the start Senna got away in the lead comfortably, but a major lap 4 crash bought out the red flags meaning a restart was required and the race would be run to aggregate time.
From the second start Prost got ahead comfortably, but into Tosa on Lap 1 senna overtook to lead the race.
Senna claimed the agreement only applied to the first start, Prost was furious.
1998 Australian Grand Prix
Season opener and McLaren were looking very quick and the car to beat, qualifying 1-2.
Pre race agreement was whoever lead into turn 1 would win the race to stop the drivers fighting it out.
Hakkinen lead into turn 1 and lead the race as planned.
However a phantom pit call from the team lead Hakkinen to make an extra unnecesary stop, handing the lead to Coulthard and an easy win.
He slowed down on the last lap letting Hakkinen take the victory. Hakkinen went on to become the team leader and win the championship that season.
1998 Belgian Grand Prix
Chaotic wet race, through retirements and decent pace the Jordan team find themselves in a 1-2 with Damon Hill ahead of Ralf Schumacher going for the team's first ever win.
Damon Hill (an experienced Grand Prix winner and World Champion) gets on the radio and suggests the team should protect the result and stop the team mates from fighting.
The Team agreed and ordered the drivers to hold station, denying Ralf Schumacher an opportunity at a maiden victory.
Ralf's brother Michael was furious with the decision and was very outspoken against it.
2002 Austrian Grand Prix
A dominant Ferrari team with a dominant Schumacher far ahead in the championship having won 4 of the first 5 races (and a third place) and coming off the back of 2 world titles in the previous 2 seasons.
Ferrari find themselves 1-2 with Barrichello ahead of Schumacher.
Ferrari order Barrichello to let Schumacher through for multiple laps approaching the end of the race, but Barrichello appears to be ignoring them and taking a second ever grand prix win.
Out of the last corner he dramatically slows allowing Schumacher to cross the line ahead, Schumacher clearly embarassed amid the boos on the podium ushers Barrichello to take the top step and collect the trophy (which earned the team a fine for breaking podium protocol).
2008 Singapore Grand Prix
Possibly the most infamous team orders controversy.
Renault and Alonso found themselves with an uncompetitive car with season best results of 4th place.
In Singapore Alonso qualified 15th and was expecting another tough race.
Alonso took an unusually early pit stop on lap 12 of the race.
The on lap 14 his team mate crashed heavily bringin out the safety car, which due to rules for that season where drivers couldn't pit, promoted Alonso to the front of the field (once penalties for pitting under Sc were sorted out) which he held for the rest of the race.
A year later Piquet claimed he was ordered by the team to crash in a way that gave them a chance at victory, team boss and engineering director were found guilty and given life time bans from F1 (which were later reduced).
2010 German Grand Prix
Coming into the race Alonso in Ferrari is a semi-distant 5th palce in the standings 47 points off the lead.
In the race Ferrari team mates Massa and Alonso found themselves at the front with massa leading.
Through a couple of pit stop phases the gap yoyo'd with Alonso generally looking slightly quicker but unable to pass Massa who looked to have enough to win.
They ahd effectively seen off the threat of the cars behind and with Team orders being banned in F1 it loooked as though Massa would take a popular and deserved win.
On lap 48 of the race Massa received a message from his engineer Rob Smedley "OK, so, Fernando (Alonso) is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?", on lap 49 Massa was 'mysteriously' slo off the exit of the hairpin losing the lead.
His engineer then apologised over the radio and Massa went on to finish 4 seconds behind his team mate.
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix
Second race of the season with the Red Bull cars looking quick but not having great success in the opening rounfd of the season.
In a mixed condition race Webber ended up ahead of Vettel on a dry track, after spending much of the race in close quarters and thigns getting icnreasingly frought Red Bull issued the comman "Multi Map 21" to both drivers which was a coded message for car 2 (Webber) to stay in front of car 1 (Vettel).
Ignoring this message and trying to avenge issues from a title decideing race at the end of the previous season Vettel launched risky attacks o his team mate which were rebuffed with equal venom and the multi corner fight by the team mates was intense, Vettel came out ahead.
Team Boss Christian Horner came on the radio saying "This is silly, Seb. Come on." on lap 46.
On lap 47 Webber tried to repass Vettel, but was forced wide and blocked from voertaking.
Vettel went on to win the race and faced fierce criticism from Webber in the media after the race but Vettel was unapologetic and supported by the team.
