In F1 Whiting only allows team orders for the english teams. If you are english, you get no punishment. If you are italian or spanish you are a cheater. For exactly the same facts.
And the facts are english people have "bad memory" (it is not really bad memory, just hypocrasy)
Germany 2008:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jul/21/formulaone.motorsports
According to Dennis, Kovalainen was simply told that Hamilton was much quicker and he took the decision himself to allow his team-mate by. "The only thing we advise drivers is the respective pace of the other driver and they ultimately call it," the team principal said. "Lewis was nearly a second quicker than Heikki through the race and when he was told Lewis was quicker he just let him past.
"He knew that was the only way because the longer he would have held up Lewis the more difficult it would have been for him to have regained the lead. It was a tremendous sporting gesture and it's what being in a racing team is about. True team-mates do these things because that's the way they are."
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