Idk about the championship not being a team effort, maybe we should ask capirossi about that eh?
honestly though, if there's no rules against it I can't see an issue (jack and james shouldn't either considering how much they made out of the lack of team orders to fabrizio last year and that instance truly did contribute to haga's loss) in this particular case I think they would have done better to do like the second and let camier run up front and soften whatever points haslam would earn. Hell, he might have managed to slow him enough for max to catch him