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Sports like hockey, soccer, rugby etc... are not good examples to parallel with F1 because there is no individual objective. There is only a team objective.
A better parallel might be swimming. My son is a member of a swimming squad [team ?] and they field a couple of dozen or so swimmers at a meet. There are points given to each swimmer depending on their finishing position in a race... and they also accrue points for their squad. At the end of the meet, there's a championship order for the swimmers, and one for the squads.
Some swimmers from the same squad are up against each other in the same race. In those situations, it's each swimmer for himself or herself. In considering the parallel to F1, would the head coach [team manager ?] ever ask a swimmer to give way to another in order to allow his/her preferred choice to win gold rather than silver [if they were 1-2 at the time] ? Can you imagine such a scenario at Olympic level ?
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