BAR up for a battle
BAR boss Nick Fry is “appalled” by his team’s two-race ban and plans to fight the verdict of the FIA’s International Court of Appeal.
BAR chief executive Fry insists the decision to ban BAR for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix in two weeks is “wholly wrong” and does not reflect the evidence heard by the court in Paris yesterday.
World governing body the FIA brought the case before their own appeal court, alleging BAR deliberately broke the rules in the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
Jenson Button’s car was found to be underweight when drained of fuel and the existence of a secondary fuel tank prompted the FIA to appeal against the stewards’ initial decision to declare the result official.
BAR are unable to appeal against today’s ruling within the FIA framework and Fry today confirmed he is looking at other legal means to race this weekend, raising the prospect of a civil court action.
He said: “We are examining our options. Our objective is to race this weekend.
“We have some of the best sporting lawyers in Britain and probably the world working on this now.
“Obviously if we are to race this weekend we need to get some judgement from a court pretty soon, probably tomorrow morning.
“I think we need to get the car into qualifying so I think that will be our final deadline.”
