Team orders have existed in Formula 1 since the start of the championship in the 1950s. Back then it was a case of a driver swapping their car with a teammate because of a mechanical problem and enabling them to win a race, just as Luigi Musso was told by Ferrari to hand his car over to Juan Manuel Fangio at the 1956 Italian Grand Prix. Musso refused and instead, it was Peter Collins who handed his car over to Fangio, enabling the Argentine to secure the 1956 World Championship. Nowadays F1 teams use orders to drivers to instruct them to not race each other either in a bid to secure a guarante…
