BAR vigorously deny they used an illegal fuel system to gain an advantage on their grid rivals and said they will take this to the French courts. Then a week later BAR did a complete turn around and said the court

 

Thanks for remding me, Dave. Just turned on the Speed channel...

 

Seems like the BAR team has fallen into a slump. I hope they do better when they come to North America.

 

They also had to run this race on 5 week old engine - something never done before. As a result they had to detune the engine slightly to ensure it would survive the race.

On another note - KR was robbed of a victory imo - I really hate this one tire rule - thankfully he was not hurt.