Pedro de la Rosa on Thursday urged the sport to turn the page following the team orders scandal despite the FIA yet to clarify when the WMSC will meet.

Cameramen and media hounded both Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in the Hungaroring paddock, mere days after they swapped positions for victory in Germany.

With a World Motor Sport Council inquiry now pending, the saga is still F1's hottest topic, but de la Rosa described it as 'nonsense' and believes that team orders have a place in Formula One.

"We must turn the page and not discuss this nonsense anymore," he is quoted by EFE news agency. "We need to legalise it [orders] because you cannot lie to the spectators; team orders have always existed and will always exist because this is a team sport." 

He said he would agree to move over for his team-mate, Kamui Kobayashi, if the order "makes sense for the good of the team".

"I understand very well and I think the whole world does as well that this is a team sport,” he said. “In the first race it would be absurd, but after the halfway point of the championship, team orders seem logical to me.”