[Fot] F1 Championship - Not over yet?!

[Joe Curry]

I am wondering how the fuel samples are taken from the cars during pit
stops.  With all the mechanics hovering over the cars changing tires and
refueling, I can't see how any race officials can possibly take samples from
the car.   (Some of them can't even stay out of the way of certain drivers.)
I would believe that they take samples from the rig shortly after refueling
but not from the car.  I just can't see how that would be possible.

I wait eagerly to see how this develops and think that if the McLaren
protest does take place and upheld, putting Lewis into the championship;
there will be a major outcrying from a host of people.

Joe C.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fot-bounces+spitlist=cox.net at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of David W.
Riddle
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 10:33 PM
To: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] F1 Championship - Not over yet?!

Bill, it was the fuel in the cars and not in the fueling rig.

http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=41157

"...After Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix the stewards analysed fuel 
samples taken from the Williams and BMW cars during their pit stops, 
which appeared to show temperatures outside the permitted range..."

At 08:10 PM 10/21/2007, you wrote:
>It wasn't the fuel in the car, it was the fuel being delivered by the
>fueling rig, They are allowed to have cooling, in fact all teams do,
>but they have to stay within a specific range of ambient. The
>brouhaha is that they BMW and Williams teams were a few degrees
>cooler than they were supposed to be. The mitigating circumstance is
>that the officially measured ambient temperature and the unofficially
>measured ambient were further apart than at any event this year.  The
>stewards initially decided not to apply a penalty, but their
>reasoning had to do with technical issues that they are not qualified
>to determine. So the potential for a change in the championship still
>exists--McLaren has filed a protest and it will need to be considered.
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