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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith
When F1 started in the '50s weren't 'team orders' down to driver agreement? There didn't seem to be much agreement in yesterday's race. Bottas even asked whether driver position for the rest of the race would change.
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I don't buy this line of reasoning. "More sporting" my ar*e.
The point in the 50s was for one driver to sacrifice points for another driver to gain them.
The point in 2018 is for one driver to sacrifice points for another driver to gain them.
The reason for doing it is the same, and the outcome is the same. It's just executed by a different person. If the reasoning is "race fixing", then the 50s version fits the definition of a race fix more than 2018 because it was an agreement between 2 competitors. If Liverpool threw a football match against Man Uted, nobody would say it's fine because they had some sort of bizarre sporting gentleman's agreement.
It's the same now as it has always been. If you hated it in 2018, then it's no good saying "it was better in the old days", because it wasn't. If you consider F1 broken now due to team orders, then it's always been broken due to team orders.