Mark Webber has defended Ferrari after Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa were embroiled in a team-orders scandal during the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim last weekend.
Leading in Hockenheim with 18 laps to go, Massa appeared to be given coded instructions to allow team-mate Alonso to pass him in order to bolster the latter's chances in the drivers' championship.
The controversy led to a $110,000 fine for Ferrari and scorn for both Alonso and Massa, with the matter referred to the World Motor Sport Council to determine whether the team should face further sanctions.
But Webber insisted the pair had done nothing wrong, and poured cold water on the suggestion of further restrictions to combat team orders.
"(Team orders) have been happening for 40 years in the sport and they'll happen in the future," Webber told Autosport ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend.
"That's the way it is. If you have a two-car team, three-car team, four-car team, there's always going to be certain situations at certain tracks and certain points in championships where one car is going to need to be in a definite position and the team can influence that - so they will."
"To try and have a rule which says that you cannot manipulate or have a team order in a grand prix is virtually impossible."
"They gave Felipe a good opportunity to win the grand prix as well. They gave him the chance to win the race up to the point where he couldn't pull away from Fernando."
"Obviously they had a decision in the team where the fastest guy in the team wins the race. The fastest guy on that day won the race."
Webber also defended his own performance at the weekend, after he failed to qualify on the front row for the first time since the Bahrain Grand Prix in Round 1.
The Australian finished sixth in Germany, leaving him tied for third with team-mate Sebastian Vettel on 136 points, 21 points adrift of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.
"When you qualify fourth people say you're invisible," Webber said.
"The first part of the race I was with Lewis (Hamilton). We knew with the strategy now if you're fifth or sixth on the first lap it's very difficult to get on the podium from there, you need a safety car or something."
"I was still happy to get something out of the weekend ... I could've easily pressured the McLarens a lot more but I wanted to finish the grand prix, so we gave them an easy life to finish the race."
"I think you can have one weekend where it doesn't work out."
After Ferrari's one-two finish brought Alonso within 34 points of Hamilton, Webber admits the championship is now a three-team race between Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari.
"There are quite a few people who can win the race this weekend," he said.
"We still need to beat everyone. There are still a lot of points to go. We can't say we'll let Ferrari do their thing and we'll just concentrate on McLaren."
"We need to beat everyone and that's the plan this weekend - have a clean, perfect weekend and get as many points as we can."