Formula 1 drivers and team orders have a long and disagreeable history, especially when those drivers are in the heat of the world championship battle.
You have to go back to the 1950s to find a properly gentlemanly resolution to a title fight involving two teammates. And even then the famous example of Peter Collins handing his Ferrari over to Juan Manuel Fangio in the 1956 Italian Grand Prix is more complicated than it might appear: not only were the points mathematics more strongly in Fangio's favour, Collins firmly believed 1957 would be his year.
