Originally Posted by Thanh-BKK
And here we got it..... according to German newspaper "Bild":
"In einem irren Finale gewinnt Lewis Hamilton zunächst den Großen Preis von Belgien. Doch nach einem Protest von Ferrari wird ihm der Sieg später aberkannt"
"At first, Lewis Hamilton wins the Belgian Grand Prix in a crazy final. BUT AFTER A PROTEST FROM FERRARI HIS VICTORY IS DENIED LATER"
Thanh
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Firstly, any team can request the stewards to make an investigation. The stewards can take it upon themselves to make an investigation. I can see no relavance that Ferrari requested an investigation.
Originally Posted by Thanh-BKK
I replied to Mattk's question "where is the evidence that Ferrari was even involved in the whole process". Until now i didn't have such evidence - but suddenly there it is in the German news. So FIA first said "the move was ok as per the rules", then Ferrari protests, and of course Ferrari gets their way and now we see what happened.
Thanh
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The FIA didn't say "the move was ok as per the rules"...
Ron Dennis' words on ITV at Spa when asked about the investigation underway involving Hamilton and Raikkonen will show that Ron knew the Race Director doesn't make these decisions:
Ron Dennis' words: "We checked with Charlie, of course Charlie can only give an opinion, he's not the stewards, but he gave an opinion that we had complied, probably to the regulations..."
Charlie Whiting is the Race Director not one of the stewards.
This is now the 4th penalty awarded to Hamilton this season. In hindsight Hamilton would be ahead if they had let the Spa result stand and awarded a 10 spot grid penalty at the next race!