Next week, Formula One powers could spoil the season by ruling that the Jenson Button fairy tale is too good to be true and his back-from-the-dead Brawn GP team has cheated its way to the top of the grid.
If they do, we should protest by switching off our televisions for the next race, the Chinese Grand Prix. The first two races, both won by Button, were too fun for a sudden overturning of the results to be palatable now.
The matter that motorsports’ International Court of Appeal will hear Tuesday is this: Do Brawn, Williams and Toyota have illegal aerodynamic technology on their cars?
Some teams—which this season, remarkably, include Ferrari—contend they do and their lack of the same go-fast bodywork is a main reason why they’re eating Button’s dust… Details