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Originally Posted by ralphee
Is this another Whitmarsh cock up,or is it me? Seems Mclaren want to do nothing but throw Championship points away lately.
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The refueller turned the tap to drain instead of fill briefly, but the engineers had to send Hamilton out anyway as there wasn't time to sort it out, in the hope of dealing with the problem afterwards. Don't know how you can blame Whitmarsh for that but no doubt plenty will.
The irony is the rule was only changed after Hamilton stopped on track in Canada 2010 qualifying, to prevent cars being underfuelled and stopping just after the finish line in qualifying.
Although throwing him out of qualifying entirely is a new one, I guess McLaren was expecting to still be tenth at worst if they hadn't managed to argue their case.