chitownjeff
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Toro Rosso lose Japanese Grand Prix appeal
Toro Rosso have lost their appeal against Vitantonio Liuzzi?s penalty at last month?s Japanese Grand Prix. It means that Spyker?s Adrian Sutil keeps the point he scored at the Fuji race.
Liuzzi originally took eighth place, ahead of Sutil. However, stewards subsequently added 25 seconds to his race time for overtaking under yellow flags. It meant the Italian dropped to ninth, while Sutil moved up a place to give Spyker their maiden championship point.
Toro Rosso appealed, but at a meeting in Paris on Friday, the FIA International Court of Appeal confirmed the stewards? original decision.
"Obviously we are disappointed, but we accept the decision of the court,? said Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost. ?Now, all our attention is fixed on next weekend's final round of the season in Brazil, where we hope to build on the good form the team has shown in recent races and try and win some more points on the track."
Spyker team principal Colin Kolles commented: ?This verdict has confirmed Spyker and Adrian Sutil's first-ever world championship point, which was well-deserved given the difficult circumstances. The boost to the team has been invaluable and we can now move onto Brazil with renewed confidence.?
Following the decision, Spyker remain tenth in the constructors? table on one point, while Toro Rosso lie seventh on eight.
SourceQ: Is Ferrari more important for Formula One than other teams?
MM: Yes, firstly, because it holds a historically important position, as the team has been involved in Formula One since 1950. The second point has something to do with existential orientation: imagine that there were only one British team and all other teams were Italian, that the commercial rights holder was Italian, as was the FIA President, the race director and his assistant and the sport?s commissioner. Wouldn?t it be understandable that this team would be very careful? I therefore use my neutrality with a huge amount of responsibility and stay in close contact with Ferrari to assure them that no British ?mafia? or cartel tries to take advantage of them. But should we find it necessary to impose our technical or sporting regulations, than Ferrari is treated like any other team. Should we find irregularities on a Ferrari - like the moveable floor after the Australian Grand Prix - it is removed and banned.
:lol: When Panis left they gave him his Toyota F1 car. Ralf leaves and he gets a Rear Wing Endplate.
And it's still more than he deserves.
After losing the drivers' title at the final hurdle, McLaren boss Ron Dennis hit out at the rise of internet media.
The website of Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport slammed the attack as 'another excuse' from the defeated British chief.
'Blame it on the web,' Gazzetta mocked Dennis as having said.
McLaren has endured a scandalous season of internal rivalry and the espionage affair, and Dennis is quoted as saying: "The internet is an unregulated source of information that is a nuisance. I have said it before and will continue to say it.
"I am not a critic of the media, but it is a difficult situation when you spend so much time refuting falsehoods and correcting inaccuracies.
"It has added to the pressure on our team, even if the (gearbox) problem in Sao Paulo has nothing to do with it.
"I think the team has coped well throughout the year."
The Italian media have been almost embarrassing in their anti-McLaren stance so consequently I think we can safey ignore any views they might have about the team.