
McLaren's lawyer has called for Hamilton to be handed the points of the Brazilian Grand Prix that would make him this year's F1 champion. In Thursday's FIA hearing in London McLaren's lawyer told the FIA that the BMW and Williams cars that finished ahead of the McLaren driver broke the rules on fuel temperatures and gained an advantage.
If the three involved cars are disqualified Hamilton would move up to fourth position in the race. With the five points he would score (instead of 2 points for seventh position) Hamilton would be the 2007 Formula 1 world champion instead of Kimi Raikkonen. Raikkonen beat Hamilton by just one single point at this moment, but if the FIA disqualifies the BMW and Williams cars, Hamilton would get the championship by two points over Raikkonen.
"The principle is clear," McLaren's lawyer Mr. Mill told Reuters. "If there was a breach, it was performance-enhancing. The sanction, I'm afraid, has to be disqualification. I ask you to address this as though it was any team at any stage of the season.
"Whenever in the past there has been a disqualification, there has been a re-classification... All we ask you to do is what normally happens."
A decision is expected on Friday.
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