All Posts Tagged With: "Controversy"

Formula One Management chairman Bernie Ecclestone has said that McLaren essentially committed ”fraud” by lying to stewards in Australia, and that the consequences could be serious for the team.

The sport’s commercial rights holder, who has nothing to do with the World Motor Sport Council before which McLaren is due to appear on 29 April, nevertheless expressed concern that the team could be banned.  Read more... (231 words, 1 image, estimated 55 secs reading time)

The McLaren team have been summoned to appear in front of an FIA council to explain their role in the ”lie-gate” controversy after the Australian Grand Prix.  Read more... (238 words, 1 image, estimated 57 secs reading time)

Lewis Hamilton has apologised for his part in the post-race stewards meeting at which he and McLaren Mercedes’ sporting director Dave Ryan ”misled” the FIA.

The world champion was contrite as he appeared in a special press conference he had called to explain himself this afternoon in Malaysia.  Read more... (350 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

The controversy following the first race of the Formula One 2009 season has claimed it’s first victim in the form of a top McLaren official. Sporting director Dave Ryan has been suspended after 35 years with the team.  Read more... (167 words, 1 image, estimated 40 secs reading time)

Jarno Trulli says he has been given justice after the FIA reinstated his third place in the Australian Grand Prix – and disqualified Lewis Hamilton and McLaren.

The Toyota driver was docked with a 25-second time penalty after the race for passing Hamilton under safety car conditions. That dropped him to twelfth place.  Read more... (376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Lewis Hamilton has been stripped of his third place in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix after the FIA ruled that his McLaren team “deliberately misled” stewards in a post-race enquiry.

Forumula1.net’s Hugh Podmore asks why…

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The FIA International Court of Appeal has announced today that it has found Vodafone McLaren Mercedes’ appeal in respect of the penalty awarded to Lewis Hamilton after the Belgian Grand Prix on September 7th to be inadmissible.

Statements from McLaren Mercedes  Read more... (248 words, 1 image, estimated 60 secs reading time)

FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L’AUTOMOBILE CASE:

Appeal lodged by the Motor Sports Association (MSA) on behalf of its licence-holder Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, against Decision N° 49 taken by the Panel of Stewards on 7 September 2008 at the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix, an event run on 7 September 2008 and counting towards the 2008 Formula One World Championship  Read more... (2296 words, estimated 9:11 mins reading time)

Lewis Hamilton will find out on Tuesday morning whether the FIA will overturn his 25-second penalty for cutting a chicane during his duel with Kimi Raikkonen in the Belgian Grand Prix.

McLaren’s appeal against the ruling, on the grounds that Hamilton yielded to Raikkonen and did not gain an advantage, was heard before the FIA’s Court of Appeal in Paris on Monday.  Read more... (329 words, 1 image, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

McLaren chief rubbishes Ferrari bias claims ahead of Hamilton hearing and puts his trust in the FIA – again.

One year on from the trauma and intrigue of ’spygate’, McLaren’s Ron Dennis will find himself before motorsport’s supreme governing body, the FIA, once again next week as he and his team attempt to vindicate Lewis Hamilton of wrong doing in the Belgian Grand Prix.  Read more... (582 words, 1 image, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)