- Any team orders that influence the outcome of a Grand Prix have been decreed against the sport and are therefore banned. Measures will reportedly be taken (though it has not been clarified which, specifically) should a team be suspected of making use of such orders.
- Note: It is worth remembering that, in the late 1990, there had already been an attempt toward banning team orders (following the controversial last-minute place swap between Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard, in the 1998 GP of Australia).
The teams, however, began to camouflage whatever the orders decreed, by blaming one of their driver's drop in performance on brake problems, loss of engine power, etc. A similar stratagem could of course be employed from 2003 on.
What criteria will there be for taking the announced measures in cases such as these remains to be seen.
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