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05.05.05, 15:35
Nie opłaciło się oszustwo. BAR-Honda została ukarana za próbę oszustwa przy
ważeniu bolidów podczas wyściu San Marino.
To oznacza, że na 90 proc. wiadomo kto zajmie pierwsze dwa miejsca w
klasyfikacji konstruktorów i kierowców. Nie wiadomo tylko w jakiej
kolejności: Alonso/Renault/Schumacher/Ferrarri.
(Przypadków losowych, wypadków itp. nie uzwględniłem).
Kto chce, niech poczyta depesze Reutersa:
Jenson Button's BAR Honda team were on Thursday banned from competing in the
next two Grand Prix after being found guilty of "highly regrettable
negligence" at last month's race in San Marino.
The verdict, way short of the season-long ban called for by motor
racing's governing body the International Automobile Federation (FIA), was
handed down by the FIA's International Court of Appeal.
The court ruled that the car Button drove to finish third at Imola was
underweight.
In addition to being excluded from Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix and Monaco
on May 22 BAR have retrospectively been thrown out of the San Marino race and
stripped of the points they picked up there - their first of the season.
They have also been handed a six month ban suspended for one year.
BAR vigorously deny they used an illegal hidden second fuel tank to gain
an advantage on their grid rivals.
FIA president Max Mosley said he felt the sentence meted out by the four-
judge panel at the FIA's Paris headquarters had been lenient.
"The facts in this case are very clear," Mosley told the BBC.
"The team was asked to pump the fuel out of their car. They left 15
litres in the tank and told us it was empty.
"Under the circumstances, we feel they have been treated rather
leniently."
But in a statement the FIA's appeal court said that it was not possible
on the evidence they had heard to prove that BAR had deliberately cheated.
"Their actions...show at the least a highly regrettable negligence and
lack of transparency," the statement said.
Imola track scrutineers intitially found Button's BAR had conformed with
the legal minimum weight limit when they inspected it.
When the car was weighed immediately after the race it was found to be
above the weight limit but it was below the limit when the fuel tank was
drained.
FIA scrutineers at the track accepted BAR's explanation but the FIA,
suspecting the car was loaded with petrol as ballast, put the case before the
its International Court of Appeal.
And in its ruling the court declared: "The inspection revealed that on
top of the 160 grams of fuel that was emptied, 8.92kg of fuel still remained
in a special copmartment within the fuel tank and a further 2.46kg remained
in the bottom of the fuel tank.
"These quantities remained in the vehicle after the BAR Honda team had
confirmed "That's it" when asked if the draining process was completed."
The ruling means that BAR will restart the season in Germany on May 29
without a point.
