That's considered part of the team strategy in F1 to maximize the chances of getting both drivers and constructors championships. Team orders of this kind are issued at almost every race.
We don't consider it a "flaw" in soccer when one player passes the ball to another so they can score, and F1 blurs the line because there are both teams and individual standings. In singles badminton, though, it's supposed to be all about individual performance.
Quite frankly, it's an absurd comparison, and I'm not even a fan of sports.
A football team does not have a fraction of its players qualified to participate in a championship. There is no podium. The goalie is doing a completely different job from the striker.
There are team races, eg rowing, where one person cannot win and the other lose.
From what I see, F1 and other races are individual races! It just happens that individuals belong to the same organization, and therefore the organization forces some logistics shenanigans that go against the sport.
It is not. F1 drivers flouting the instructions are merely subject to consequences of insubordination at team level. Their whole lives are not erased from the national record and they are not subject to nation-level excommunication.
