Thread: Formula 1 2009 Season [may contain real time spoilers]
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Old 02-05-2009, 19:39   #379
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Re: Formula 1 2009 Season [may contain real time spoilers]
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Originally Posted by CHiLL View Post
Under the safety car, Trulli went off and came back on, Hamilton went past him. Usually its against the rules to overtake under the safety car, but Trulli went completely off. (4 wheels off) Once Hamilton was passed, he didn't know if he should let Trulli back passed, so he called his team over the radio and asked. They weren't sure, so they told him to let Trulli back past.

Once Trulli was back infront, McLaren took Trulli to the stewards saying he overtook Hamilton under the safety car. This was a mistake by one of the head people at McLaren, and Hamilton hadn't actually done anything wrong.
Hamilton hadn't done anything wrong up untill the point that he lied to the Stewards under the direction of his race director(who's now been sacked).

McLaren have been found guilty of five charges, the main one of which was bringing the sport into desrepute by lying to an official.

The punishment, a three race ban, is "suspended" in the same way that a prison sentence can be suspended. As long as no other offences are commited is a pre-determined amount of time, then the sentence never has to be served.
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