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http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2007/10/7023.html

The BMW Sauber and Williams teams are being investigated by Brazilian Grand
Prix stewards over possible technical irregularities on their cars at the
end of Sunday's Interlagos race. The enquiries are believed to relate to
fuel temperatures.

Nico Rosberg finished fourth for Williams, with Robert Kubica and Nick
Heidfeld fifth and sixth respectively for BMW Sauber. If they were to be
disqualified, it would move McLaren's Lewis Hamilton up from seventh to
fourth, making him world champion, rather than Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.

 

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"A statement from the sport's governing body, the FIA, said the fuel in the
cars was "more than [the permitted] 10 degrees below the ambient
temperature".
Filling the car with cooler fuel can give a car an advantage.
Cooler fuel is denser, so either it can mean it takes slightly less time to
refuel the car or marginally more can be added in the same time.
And it would give a slight power advantage for about three laps before it
returned to ambient temperature out on the track.
Excluding the cars would risk turning one of the most exciting championship
finales in F1 history into a farce.
But if the cars are found to have run fuel below the legal temperature, the
stewards might feel obliged to disqualify them, even though the advantage
conferred would almost certainly have had no bearing on the title race.
However, there is a precedent that could be used by race stewards not to
exclude them.
In 1995, the Benetton-Renault of Michael Schumacher and the Williams-Renault
of David Coulthard were initially disqualified from first and second places
in the Brazilian Grand Prix because their fuel did not conform to samples
approved by the FIA.
But a week later the FIA reinstated the drivers' points but docked the teams
their constructors' points.
In that case, though, no advantage was gained by the irregularity. "