F1 FAIL! McLaren given suspended ban, Lewis Hamilton free to race
TODAY, McLaren have been punished by the FIA with a suspended three-race ban for misleading race stewards at the Aussie GP.
Lewis Hamilton’s team admitted five charges of breaching F1 rules at an inquiry on Wednesday in Paris.
There was some talk of McLaren being thrown out of this season’s championship, which would have been very harsh, so the team – including world champion Hamilton – can count themselves fortunate to get away with what amounts to a severe slap on the wrists.
The three-race penalty will only be enforced if “further facts emerge” about the team’s behaviour in Melbourne, or if there is a “further breach” of the rules.
As for Hamilton, who issued a public apology after the incident in which he insisted he was not a ‘liar’, has escaped personal punishment and is free to drive at the next GP, to be held in Spain on 10 May.
Posted: 29th, April 2009 | In: Sports Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 30th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Jenson was always going to do better this year. None of them have the lottery of having to avoid Coulthard on his way to an early bath at that first bend
April 30th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I must admit it is nice to see Jenson Button doing so well, when so many pundits had completely written him off as a has-been in recent years….
April 29th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I’ve tried really hard to be patriotic and like Hamilton and I’ve tried to make allowances for his silly behaviour on account his young age but still he irritates me enormously!
He is just so up himself… and as for his even more irritating father….
Bring it on Jensen. He seems like a nice young man as does Mark Webber.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
This is just to ensure that if Maclaran get the car right and Hamilton looks to become a runaway winner towards the end of the season the FIA can invoke a 3 race ban to spice it up a little