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Alonso lost out on pole to Sebastian Vettel at Hockenheim by a scant two-thousandths of a second and the car was, if anything, slightly faster than the Red Bull in the race.
Historically, the FIA has not punished the use of team orders when they have been applied in a championship-winning race but Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz told Austrian reporters this week that he would be prepared to lose the title to Alonso rather than show favouritism to either of his drivers.
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With Vettel out and Webber in third, Hamilton was now favourite to win his first race of the season, with team-mate Button, who watched Hamilton and the Red Bulls from a distance during much of the race, up to second.
Before his Red Bull gave way in the last race, he was streets ahead in Valencia.
"Today we had a good car, and I don't think we were too far from the Red Bull pace, especially in the race, " the Spaniard said.
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Red Bull's Mark Webber won the race with BMW's Robert Kubica finishing second.
The Red Bull driver, who goes into the race second in the championship, must finish ahead of leader Fernando Alonso to have a chance of winning the title.
The 2011 season came to an end at last Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix, with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel finishing the race second behind teammate Mark Webber having already sealed a second consecutive championship.
The Japanese was handed a 10-place grid penalty for next weekend's Malaysian race for his role in tangles with Red Bull's Mark Webber at the start and BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica nine laps from the end.
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Both drivers blamed inconsistencies with their cars for the disappointing qualifying display at their home race, but Schumacher made it clear he believes the testing ban is severely restricting the team's chances of catching Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari in the development race.
The 2013 season gets underway with the Australian Grand Prix on March 17 and Alonso has urged Ferrari to arrive at the Melbourne race ready to challenge the dominance of Red Bull, who have now won the drivers' and constructors' titles for three consecutive years.
"We knew we had great race pace but we had to stay with Red Bulls, " said Hamilton, who before Istanbul had not won since Singapore last year.
Alonso's pole was Ferrari's first since the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix and with Button qualifying second fastest, it will be the first race this season that will not feature a Red Bull on the front row.
If the race finishes as it starts then third place will be enough for McLaren's Lewis Hamilton to hang on to his lead in the title race (124 pts) from the two Red Bulls of Mark Webber (121 pts) and pole-sitter Sebastian Vettel (115pts).
But the Red Bull driver felt that tire degradation cost him as the race went progressed.
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Starting from fifth place, Alonso won his second race this season, showing that Ferrari can challenge Red Bull for pure speed.
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However, the FIA added that drivers managed by Briatore would be granted 2010 F1 licences, which will be a relief to Red Bull's Mark Webber, a two-time race-winner in 2009.
Webber, who battled with Button for more than half the race in Valencia, could finish only ninth as the Red Bulls struggled to find any pace on the stop-start street circuit and is now 20.5 points behind Button.
But they were the sideshow in a race that will be remembered for the remarkable incident between the Red Bulls.
The 36-year-old will go into the season with a new race engineer after his long-time partner Ciaron Pilbeam left Red Bull for Lotus.
Vettel, who finished third in the first race of the season, admitted improvements are needed for the Red Bull car ahead of qualifying on Saturday.
Hamilton could only qualify in fifth at Monza, while Red Bull's Mark Webber, who is second in the title race, put three torrid practice session behind him to post the fourth quickest time, although both drivers were around half a second off the pace.
"If you race people hard then you run out of tires, " said Red Bull's Mark Webber after last month's Bahrain Grand Prix.
Whitmarsh's approach is in stark contrast to that of other teams on the grid, with both Red Bull and Mercedes having issued driver orders during the season's second race in Malaysia.
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