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BAR and Button get two-race ban
The BAR team has been banned for two races for running an underweight car at the San Marino Grand Prix.
An appeal court of motorsport's ruling body the FIA also stripped BAR of the 10 points won by Jenson Button and team-mate Takuma Sato at Imola. But it stopped short of meeting the FIA's request that BAR be thrown out of the Formula One championship.
Button and Sato will now have to sit out Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix on 22 May. And the decision to exclude BAR's San Marino results means the team and its drivers will have no points when they return for the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on 29 May.
A further six-month ban has been suspended for a year.
The ruling was the toughest sanction taken against a Formula One team for 20 years.
BAR plan to fight Grand Prix ban
BAR have reacted angrily after being banned for two races for running an underweight car at the San Marino GP. The team said it was still considering its options and hoped to race in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.
The BAR team has been banned for two races for running an underweight car at the San Marino Grand Prix.
An appeal court of motorsport's ruling body the FIA also stripped BAR of the 10 points won by Jenson Button and team-mate Takuma Sato at Imola. But it stopped short of meeting the FIA's request that BAR be thrown out of the Formula One championship.
Button and Sato will now have to sit out Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix on 22 May. And the decision to exclude BAR's San Marino results means the team and its drivers will have no points when they return for the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on 29 May.
A further six-month ban has been suspended for a year.
The ruling was the toughest sanction taken against a Formula One team for 20 years.
BAR plan to fight Grand Prix ban
BAR have reacted angrily after being banned for two races for running an underweight car at the San Marino GP. The team said it was still considering its options and hoped to race in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.