Fuel issue- No penalty for BMW/Williams- McLaren to appeal

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Originally Posted by ioan

So they actually appealed the stewards decision:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/63593

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It just once again showes how incompetent the FIA has been this season..I mean if they not even can deal with this..well ya.....simple temperatures issue....How can you expect them to deal with more complicated issues when it comes to checking the legality of cars ?

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

Yeah!! I guess you are right. They didn't want to give Bernie a heart attack :eek:

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Or do anything that may affect the ever growing number of TV viewers around the world. Since these figures are at an all time high, seriously, who needs to be stressing about the small stuff.... it gets in the way of things.

McLaren have appealed, I doubt it will change anything. Time to move on.

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Originally Posted by TL

It just once again showes how incompetent the FIA has been this season..I mean if they not even can deal with this..well ya.....simple temperatures issue....How can you expect them to deal with more complicated issues when it comes to checking the legality of cars ?

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I think they would have difficulty checking the temperature of a dog at the Vets!! :D

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Originally Posted by janneppi

Thanks I think that cleared it up, you are then agreeing with me that FIA should investigate the appeal on it's own merit without without influence from what McLaren themselves did or didn't do?

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Yeah, and I also think that the FIA and it's stewards had no right to refuse Ferrari when they wanted to lodge a complaint against Hamilton because he blocked Kimi!

So in the light of this the FIA should decide to strap Hamilton of any points he did score or might yet score for the Brazilian GP!

Let there be JUSTICE, but for EVERYONE! :mad:

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Originally Posted by TL

It just once again showes how incompetent the FIA has been this season..I mean if they not even can deal with this..well ya.....simple temperatures issue....How can you expect them to deal with more complicated issues when it comes to checking the legality of cars ?

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It seems that the temperature issue is not as simple as you might believe. There are to many relative factors to be taken into account to be able to actually prove that the fuel really was cooler than permitted by the rules.

Shouldn't it be noted that the Stewards chose not to penalise BMW and Williams because they weren't sure that the temperature reaings were accurate enough?

No one has said that the two teams are definitively guilty of a rule breach but no penalty will be levied because we don't want to affect the championship.

If the Stewards were positive that the teams were in breach of the regs then they would have been punished, championship or no championship. Malaysia '99 being a previous example.

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Originally Posted by Caroline

McLaren have appealed, I doubt it will change anything.

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Right, nothing changed, the same hypocrite team like always.

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Originally Posted by ioan

Right, nothing changed, the same hypocrite team like always.

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Do you want the result to change?

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Originally Posted by Hawkmoon

Shouldn't it be noted that the Stewards chose not to penalise BMW and Williams because they weren't sure that the temperature reaings were accurate enough?

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I posted it on the previous page, but no one cares about FACTS. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Caroline

Do you want the result to change?

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Yep, change the result, throw them out of F1 as they deserve it after the mess they did this year.