Renault cheated in Turkey?

Pedro De la Rosa has accused Renault of using illegal 'team orders' to help Formula One title leader Fernando Alonso take second place in Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix. A Renault team member was heard telling Alonso by radio on lap two, when he was in third place and behind Italian teammate Giancarlo Fisichella: "Fernando, you're faster than Fisi, overtake him."

"What they told Alonso on the radio is a clear example of what is illegal, those were 100 percent team orders," Spaniard De la Rosa, Alonso's compatriot, was quoted by Spain's Marca newspaper as saying on Monday. "The message was very clear: overtake him. What could not be heard was what they told Fisichella before that," he said.

Team orders were banned in Formula One after Ferrari stirred up global uproar by ordering Brazilian Rubens Barrichello to move over for team mate Michael Schumacher at the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix.