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