"McLaren has been summoned to appear before the FIA's World Motor Sport Council on April 29 to answer charges that it has brought Formula 1 into disrepute over the controversy surrounding Lewis Hamilton's Australian Grand Prix disqualification."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74346

http://allenonf1.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/...c-without-ryan/

http://allenonf1.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/...-leave-mclaren/

 

Oh yes, they're in trouble for sure.

But this is F1.

And they are McLaren.

 

They should be banned for the rest of this season and all of next.

Dirty cheats. When will they learn?

 

Difficulty is knowing how many knew about it.

I suspect more than just 'Davey' and LH, but perhaps the deed had been done by then.

But I'm sure they could have tried to rectify the situation if they had known, and why wouldn't they have when it was obvious the stewards would find out?

A cock up to say the least.

 

These are the facts.....

Lewis - you are a liar

Mclaren - clearly a company with a total lack of integrity, who not only lied to get another competitor thrown out, but influenced their own driver to lie to consolidate the advantage

So spying was $100 million, what will blatent cheating get?

 

When you read the charges it does look like a boat load of trouble. I had no idea that they had allegedly carried on with the charade (if that is you accept they were wrong from point 1)

The FIA claims that McLaren may have broken the regulations on five counts, that:

* on 29 March, 2009, told the stewards of the Australian Grand Prix that no instructions were given to Hamilton in Car No. 1 to allow Trulli in Car no. 9 to pass when both cars were behind the safety car, knowing this statement to be untrue;

* procured its driver Hamilton the current World Champion, to support and confirm this untrue statement to the stewards;

* although knowing that as a direct result of its untrue statement to the stewards, another driver and a rival team had been unfairly penalised, made no attempt to rectify the situation either by contacting the FIA or otherwise;

* on 2 April, 2009, at a second hearing before the stewards of the Australian Grand Prix, (meeting in Malaysia) made no attempt to correct the untrue statement of 29 March but, on the contrary, continued to maintain that the statement was true, despite being allowed to listen to a recording of the team instructing Hamilton to let Trulli past and despite being given more than one opportunity to correct its false statement;

* on 2 April, 2009, at the second stewards' hearing, procured its driver Hamilton to continue to assert the truth of the false statement given to the stewards on 29 March, while knowing that what he was saying to the stewards was not true.

well you reap what you sow.

 

I can tell you Hamilton's line already

It will be a cross between:

I was only following orders/they didn't tell me the whole truth/I'm leaving that team anyway

Loyalty about to be ditched in favour of self-interest?

 

Rightly or wrongly, the FIA have said that Lewis is in the clear.

McLaren are up for the the high-jump IMHO.

Penalty - my guess is a shed load of money & turfed out of the Constructors Championship for the season.

Now if this were Ferrari, penalty would be a nice lunch & some fantastic wine the complements of the FIA!

 

I forgot to add

It's all Ferrari's fault

They made us do it

 

Precisely!