So Trulli was awarded 3rd place after the race. Few hours later, Stewards identify that Trulli had overtaken Hamilton when Safety Car was out, which is against the rules. Trulli was penalized and Hamilton was awarded 3rd place. Few days later, fresh evidences surface proving that Hamilton let Trulli overtake him when Safety car was out and didn't reveal the same to Stewards when questioned after the race.
Now Stewards are totally pissed off because their decision was wrong and it was wrong because Lewis Hamilton and McLaren misled them. Stewards have realized their wrong decision and now awarded the 3rd place back to Trulli and disqualified Hamilton.
Here is the Press Release about Stewards decision - containing the evidences. The video present in Youtube seems to be removed due to FIA Copyright claim!
But, what is the punishment for deliberately misleading(and thus cheating) the Stewards? That too a team which was caught in a spying scandal and punished heavily...
Apparently, McLaren has decided not to appeal against this! And here is the Q&A with McLaren team boss, Martin Whitmarsh.
Wonder how F1 would be without Hamilton? hmm....probably slightly different!
Note : "The Greatest" contest is on espnstar.com. Schumi is leading with a whopping majority :)
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Not a word about our team's decent finish :(
The Chef,
It might be because, i neither seem to consider Force-India as an Indian team nor follow them. (when i first read your comment, i thought you were referring to Ferrari :))
But, yes you are right. It does deserve to be mentioned. Infact, it's more than a decent finish for them in this race.
I think i feel senti as it has the Indian colors all over and the name itself, though yes it does not have an Indian driver and that is certainly the thing that matters. I am sure as the team improves things will change. It was a bit circumstancial though this time. I would consider the best to be last year in MonteCarlo when Adrian was 4th till the very end of the race and then crashed.
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