Article 39.1 (team orders) no longer exists in the regulations - so teams are openly allowed to use team orders to interfere with a race result. Interfering with a race result does not just mean doing a driver swap. What if one driver is taking a gamble on strategy, and the other driver is ordered by the team to hold up his competitors behind, thus assisting the other driver. By my understanding that is no longer prohibited. Massa was accused of doing this in Korea when Fernando had a pit stop problem. At the time, Mark Hughes said that Massa deliberately slowed down, meaning that only Lewis Hamilton was able to jump Alonso at the pits stops. This was proved to be false, as Mercedes (who had Schumacher just behind Massa) came to the defence of Ferrari. This sort of thing could happen in 2011 - but then there is article 151.c of the sporting code, which says "any fraudulent conduct or any act prejudicial to the interests of any competition, or to the interests of motorsport generally" can be punished. In terms of team orders, what would the FIA call "fraudulent conduct"? Team orders may be allowed but Ferrari were also found guilty of breaching article 151.c in Germany. Surely then, to be on the safe side, teams should use the "Fernando is faster than you" approach, rather than risk being found guilty of breaching article 151.c
