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Fernando Alonso got the win that he wanted in Sunday's German Grand Prix while his Ferrari Formula One team paid the price with a fine of $100,000 writes Alan Baldwin.
Race stewards imposed the penalty for using banned 'team orders' to enable the double world champion to get past leading Brazilian team mate, Felipe Massa, and bring home a one-two at Hockenheim.
Ferrari, who said they had left the decision to Massa after his race engineer sent him a radio message to point out that Alonso was faster, ruled out an appeal.
The cost for Alonso, whose post-race demeanour was only a little more animated than when he had finished 14th at the previous British Grand Prix, was a hostile grilling at the subsequent news conference.
The Spaniard was asked whether he felt embarrassed by the victory, whether he agreed that Ferrari should be kicked out of the race and whether it was a 'dirty' win that could make him a 'dirty champion'.
"We are professional drivers, we try to work in a team and we try to do the best we can every day, not only here on the track but also between the races, at the factory and preparing the races," he said in response to a reminder that he had once complained Formula One was no longer a sport.
"I think we've been doing a good job over the last couple of races and finally we got a result. I think we are happy with this, although there are things which are more for you if you want to write all these things."
The Spaniard was also asked whether the win ranked alongside Singapore 2008, where he triumphed after Brazilian team mate Nelson Piquet deliberately crashed to help him in a scandal that led to Renault collecting a suspended permanent ban.
As the questions, mostly from British reporters, continued, Alonso's answers grew shorter.
When asked if some people were worried because he is back in the championship, he replied:
"Maybe it seems like this, yes," replied the double world champion, now fifth in the championship and 34 points behind leader, Lewis Hamilton, the Briton who was once his team mate in a difficult pairing at McLaren.
Massa, marking the first anniversary of the Hungarian Grand Prix crash that left him in a coma for several days, denied that he was now a number two driver.
He said he felt he had deserved the victory but blamed the hard tyres for his predicament and said he had made the decision to let Alonso through with 20 laps remaining.
"I cannot say that I'm there fighting for first position in the championship," he said.
"I've lost many points, important points, and the only thing I can say is that I know what I can do, I can win races, that's what counts and everybody saw today that I can win races and I can be competitive.
"What happened today is something that has happened in many races this year.
"When I put on the hard tyres I struggle. This is exactly what happened in the race."
Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali said no explicit orders had been given but the team wanted to avoid a scenario like the one in Turkey where the two Red Bull drivers collided while fighting for the lead.
Alonso had been faster in practice and qualifying and had been chafing to get past, with Massa at times less than a second ahead of him and never more than 3.5 clear.
"As a team interest I want to avoid any difficult situations that arise. We have seen not many grands prix ago what has happened to some others, so we would like to avoid that," Domenicali said.
Team-by-team analysis (listed in championship order)
MCLAREN (Lewis Hamilton 4, Jenson Button 5): Hamilton got ahead of Button at the start and ended the day with an increased lead over his team mate of 14 points. McLaren's advantage of Red Bull slipped to 28 points.
RED BULL (Sebastian Vettel 3, Mark Webber 6): Vettel started on pole for the sixth time in 11 races but lost out at the start to the two Ferraris. He is now level on points with Webber, but behind 3-2 on race wins. Webber had an oil problem towards the end and had to nurse the car home. Vettel set the fastest lap.
FERRARI (Fernando Alonso 1, Felipe Massa 2): Alonso's second win of the season and 23rd of his career. Ferrari's second 1-2 of the year but a controversial one.
MERCEDES (Nico Rosberg 8, Michael Schumacher 9): Schumacher made up three places at the start in his first home race since 2006 and first in Germany with Mercedes, getting ahead of Rosberg who got back in front after his second pitstop.
RENAULT (Robert Kubica 7, Vitaly Petrov 10): Petrov scored for the first time since April and his first in dry conditions. Two cars in the top 10, for only the second time this year, but both were lapped by Ferrari.
FORCE INDIA (Vitantonio Liuzzi 16, Adrian Sutil 17): The drivers collided on the opening lap and then a tyre bungle at the first pitstop, with each fitted with one of the other's tyres, cost them a reprimand.
WILLIAMS (Rubens Barrichello 12, Nico Hulkenberg 13): Both struggled to make a clean getaway and lost positions at the start.
SAUBER (Kamui Kobayashi 11, Pedro de la Rosa 14): Both drivers finished but Kobayashi's scoring run came to an end. De la Rosa said the laps on hard tyres were like driving on ice.
TORO ROSSO (Jaime Alguersuari 15, Sebastien Buemi retired): The two collided at the start, with Alguersuari apologising for driving into Buemi. He pitted for a new front wing and continued but Buemi's race was over.
LOTUS (Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli retired): Team bosses started the day by paying their respects to the late great Jim Clark at the memorial marking his death at the circuit in 1968. Trulli retired on lap four with a gearbox problem. Kovalainen in lap 60 after colliding with De la Rosa.
HRT (Bruno Senna 19, Sakon Yamamoto retired): No luck and no points as usual for the team. Yamamoto stopped on lap 19 with a mechanical failure.
VIRGIN (Timo Glock 18, Lucas di Grassi retired): Glock was the top driver from the new teams, despite starting on the last row. Di Grassi retired with broken suspension.
