{"id":15988,"date":"2012-05-13T07:33:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15988"},"modified":"2012-05-13T07:33:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T11:33:02","slug":"stewards-strip-hamilton-of-barcelona-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/stewards-strip-hamilton-of-barcelona-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewards strip Hamilton of Barcelona pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stewards stripped Lewis Hamilton of pole position for the Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Lewis-Hamilton-car.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis-Hamilton-car\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>&#8220;This is such a disappointment.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s qualifying session was one of the best I&#8217;ve ever driven,&#8221; said the 2008 world champion, who has been relegated to the very back of the grid.<\/p>\n<p>His McLaren engineer had instructed him to stop on the track with a &#8220;problem&#8221; after completing his pole lap.<\/p>\n<p>It emerges that the team was worried Hamilton would not have enough fuel left in the car for the mandatory 1 litre FIA sample.<\/p>\n<p>But rule 6.6.2 requires drivers to return to the pits after qualifying under their own power.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Michael, the sporting director, argued a case of &#8216;force majeure&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The stewards said in a statement: &#8220;As the amount of fuel put into the car is under the complete control of the competitor the stewards cannot accept this as a case of force majeure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since we accept that the stewards didn&#8217;t agree with our interpretation of force majeure, we didn&#8217;t contest their decision to penalise him,&#8221; said team boss Martin Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n<p>It means Pastor Maldonado inherits his first pole; the first for Williams since Nico Hulkenberg in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewards stripped Lewis Hamilton of pole position for the Spanish grand prix. &#8220;This is such a disappointment.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s qualifying session was one of the best I&#8217;ve ever driven,&#8221; said the 2008 world champion, who has been relegated to the very back of the grid. His McLaren engineer had instructed him to stop on the track &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5300,5340,154,491,5284,544,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15989,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions\/15989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}