Hamilton awarded title?

[kevin ritson]

Hmmmm, release at close of business. Sounds very much like the way my old employer used to do payrises and bonuses - send them out Friday, you'd get them in the post Saturday morning, so if they were crap you'd worked the rage out of your system by Monday morning...

[nioks]

6.40pm. The journo's waiting to write this up must be loving this on a Friday night! And dying of thirst!

[anonymous-user]

7:40pm in Paris. Bet they are freezing their nuts off too.

[nioks]

[teamHOLDENracing]

Its not in Paris:

From the FIA website:

COURT OF APPEAL - CHANGE OF LOCATION
13.11.2007

Due to the transport strikes that are planned in Paris in the coming days the International Court of Appeal Hearing lodged by the Motor Sports Association (MSA) on behalf of its licence-holder Vodafone McLaren Mercedes has been moved from the FIA Headquarters in Paris to an alternative location in London. The date and time remain unchanged.

When
10.00 hrs
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Where
SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP
Woolgate Exchange
25 Basinghall Street
London EC2V 5HA

Press credentials which have been issued for this hearing remain valid for the new location.

[anonymous-user]

It is in Paris.

They held the hearing in London, then upped sticks to Paris for todays procedings.

[Riverside]

I understand they were in London yesterday but proceedings were returned to Paris today.

Looking forward to reading Max's excuses (either way) about how he was (some how) right all along about everything, ever and that everything's completely consistent with what's gone before.

[anonymous-user]

http://www.fia.com/mediacentre/Press_Releases/FIA_...

Apeal deamed inadmissible.

Two days to rule you cant lodge an apeal, yeh right.

[nioks]

A bit of an anticlimax but nothing less than expected. Quit a waste of everyones time I s'pose.

[coetzeeh]

right result though - Kimi deserves the title.

[sjn2004]

So cheating is ok then...looks like any team can cheat if it helps Ferrari.

[AlexS]

So next year then, teams will be running fuel as cold as possible to gain whatever benefit they can

[jamieboy]

PW said:

jamieboy said:

Except that last time there was a fuel irregularity, the teams lost their points but the drivers kept theirs.

But there wasn't a fuel irregularity - it was tested and found to be legal, which is why the drivers were given their points back.

If the fuel had been found to be illegal, surely the initial penalty of disqualification would have stood.

No, there was an irregularity - the fuel sample from before the race didn't match the one from after. Both samples were legal, which is why the drivers were allowed to keep their points (no performance advantage) but the teams had made a procedural mistake, which is why they were not allowed to keep theirs.

[BJG1]

AlexS said:

So next year then, teams will be running fuel as cold as possible to gain whatever benefit they can

So long as they don't finish in front of Ferrari.

[RobbieMeister]

The underlying message is that Hamilton is the world champion.

If the ruling could have been anything else they would have given it.

Bernie and Max told them what to do - they couldn't do it, so they did the next best thing - nothing.

The link that started this thread has been removed, I wonder why?

[stephen300o]

Kimi won two more races than anyone so he is more deserving anyway.

[anonymous-user]

How many races you win is irelivent in a championship based on points scoring over 17 races, unless there is a tie on points at the end. Kimi is a deserving champion, but not because he won more races.

[cougarracing]

im glad that kimi won the title, but i fear that the fia have set a dangerous president, basically saying that cheating is ok.....plus if the rule is clarified by the start of next season and it is deemed that cold fuel is illegal, then surely they are going back on their decision in court...stuck between a rock and a hard place the fia are me thinks

[RobbieMeister]

Has anyone seen or heard anything about the post on the BBC forum that started this thread?

[Muntu]

RobbieMeister said:

Has anyone seen or heard anything about the post on the BBC forum that started this thread?

Is this it ?

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:dJQw2R8MYQMJ:ww...