Fernando Alonso led home a Ferrari 1-2 in Sunday's German Formula One Grand Prix at Hockenheim to register his first win since the opening race of the season in Bahrain, dpa reported.
There could be disciplinary consequences, however, as Alonso's 23rd victory of his career was assured when the Spaniard passed teammate Felipe Massa on lap 49, just one round after the Brazilian was clearly told on his team radio that Alonso was faster than him.
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel started the race from pole position ahead of Alonso and Massa but had to be satisfied with third place after falling behind the two Ferraris in the opening corner.
Championship leader Lewis Hamilton, by contrast, jumped two places in the opening lap to eventually finish fourth ahead of defending world champion and McLaren teammate Jenson Button.
Mark Webber claimed sixth place in the second Red Bull, followed by Robert Kubica of Renault.
Mercedes drivers Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher came home in eighth and ninth, respectively, while Renault's Vitaly Petrov took 10th spot.
Hamilton now leads the drivers' standings with 157 points from 11 of 19 races, followed by Button on 143. Vettel sits joint third with Webber on 136 while Alonso now has 123 points in fifth place.
While Vettel's slow start was pivotal as to how the race eventually panned out, the major talking point was whether Alonso's passing of Massa to ensure victory was done under team orders.
"At the exit at turn six I saw Felipe was a little bit slow and tried to overtake," said Alonso.
"At that point I overtook the other car and then it was 15 or 20 laps to the end."
Massa, meanwhile, made clear that he felt he deserved to win the race but stopped short of stating that he had followed team orders and let Alonso pass him.
"I don't think I need to say anything like that," he said. "We are working for the team and doing a very good job for the team and that's the most important thing."
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner refused to rule out lodging an official protest about the incident, though, saying he would first see how motorsport's ruling body, the FIA, and race stewards at Hockenheim dealt with the issue.
"Personally I think it's wrong. I think it's against the regulations, it's against what the regulations are intended to achieve," he said.
Horner said the FIA and race stewards had "all the facts" and could also access all radio messages during the race, including when Ferrari engineer Rob Smedley apologized to Massa after the overtaking manoeuvre.
"I'm sure they're going to have a very good luck at it," said Horner.
The controversy over Alonso's passing of Massa was the only cloud over an otherwise perfect day for Ferrari.
Vettel, who was looking for a first F1 win on home soil, paid the price for starting slowly from pole. The 23-year-old German tried to prevent Alonso passing on the inside but was unsuccessful and then also saw Massa, who started from third on the grid, move along the outside to take the race lead.
"Usually we have very good starts, I'm not really sure what happened," said Vettel.
"The majority of the race the Ferraris were probably just a 10th or two quicker than us."
Vettel was the first of the leaders to pit on lap 12, followed by Alonso a lap later. Massa and Hamilton pitted on lap 14 with no change in the placings of the four drivers.
Alonso nearly managed to overtake Massa on lap 21, overtaking the Brazilian on turn six but losing the place once again on the exit.
Button was the last of the top drivers to pit on lap 22, returning in fifth place ahead of Webber and handing the race lead back to Massa, who over the following laps slowly managed to put some clean air between himself and the chasing Alonso.
However, Alonso began narrowing the gap to his teammate from lap 30 onwards, reeling off a string of quick laps and eventually passed his teammate after Smedley's message to Massa that he was slower than the two-time world champion.
Alonso immediately began pulling clear at the front while third- placed Vettel was unable to close the gap on Massa in the remaining laps.
The Formula One season continues next weekend with the Hungarian GP in Budapest.
"It's a good performance from the team and hopefully next week in Hungary we will do as well again," said Alonso.