Kimi Raikkonen has been confirmed as world champion following an stewards enquiry into the BMW and Williams teams at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
As reported earlier, fuel samples were taken from both cars of both teams during their pitstops in Sunday's race. It was shown that the temperatures of each sample were outside the permitted variation.
Jo Bauer, the FIA technical delegate, said all fuel samples from the four cars showed temperature of 12 to 14 degrees lower than the ambient temperature at the time.
Article 6.5.5 of the Formula One technical regulations states: "No fuel on board the car may be more than ten degrees centigrade below ambient temperature."
However, after lengthy deliberations at Interlagos, the race stewards decided not to penalise the teams, making the race results of the Brazilian Grand Prix official.
Written: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:15:45
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