Lewis Hamilton has ‘bridges to build’ with his McLaren-Mercedes team over the Melbourne ‘lies’ scandal, with his mechanics ‘unhappy’ and ‘upset’ at the defending Formula 1 World Champion’s threat to quit over the controversy and the manner in which he cast Dave Ryan into the role of ‘fall guy’.
After being caught trying to ‘deliberately mislead’ the FIA over the late-race incident in the 2009 curtain-raising Australian Grand Prix last month, one that saw Hamilton pass and then let re-pass the Toyota of Jarno Trulli when the Toyota ran off the track, ostensibly in a bid to get the Italian penalised and inherit the final podium position, McLaren now faces an appearance before the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) in Paris at the end of this month, where further sanctions may be meted out – ranging as far as possible exclusion from the entire season… Details
A Formula One car at the centre of one of the most bitter battles in F1 history, as well as one of its most infamous acts, goes under the hammer at the highly anticipated Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event at Ferrari’s home in Maranello on May 17. The car is the Ferrari 641/2 F1 car driven by Alain Prost in 1990 during his acrimonious run-ins with his McLaren rival, Ayrton Senna. It is also the actual car that Prost was driving when Senna punted him off the track in Japan within seconds of the start of the race, handing the Brazilian the 1990 title – an act which prompted an appalled Prost to make the comment that “motor racing is sport, not war.†In the hands of Prost, chassis 121 scored in total two third-place finishes, two second places and a victory in 1990, and is expected to fetch an estimated …Â