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I think F1 needs to come to Indy...Are they still talking about that?

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FIA president Max Mosley unleashed another verbal assault on BAR during a press conference at the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday, accusing it of ?crude? and ?primitive? tactics in seeking to subvert the sport?s technical regulations.

The Brackley-based team was stripped of the 10 points it scored in the San Marino GP and banned from the next two races after the FIA Court of Appeal found it guilty of running an underweight car at Imola.

However, the court stopped short of convicting BAR of the more heinous charge brought by the FIA, that of deliberate cheating, stating that there was no conclusive evidence that it had acted in a fraudulent manner.

Instead it rebuked the team for ?a highly regrettable negligence and lack of transparency? in failing to ensure that its cars complied with the minimum weight regulations at all times.

Mosley made it clear he considered that a charitable verdict.

?Confronted with what appeared to be a deliberate infringement, BAR have pleaded stupidity and the judges has given them the benefit of the doubt,? he said.

?I suspect the judges felt there was some doubt and they were not willing to go all the way and say fraud.

?That would have been the end of the season for BAR-Honda. I think [the two-race ban] reflects the disapproval for negligence.?

Mosley reiterated his own view that BAR attempted to hoodwink the officials by using fuel as ballast so as to pass post-race scrutineering and expressed incredulity at such tactics.

?You have got to be crazy to do it,? he said. ?People don?t do that sort of thing in Formula 1 any more.

?It?s the kind of thing people do in low-grade club racing. It?s crude and primitive, it?s not sophisticated electronics.?

Mosley confirmed that there was nothing illegal about BAR?s fuel system per se, which he said was ?identical to [that of] other teams?.

The problem ? which Mosley regards as a conscious act of deception ? was its failure to drain the extra fuel from the collector tank for the purposes of scrutineering, thereby ensuring that the car weighed in above the 600kg minimum.

BAR insisted at the court hearing on Wednesday that its cars required the excess fuel in the collector tank simply in order to function properly, and consequently never weighed less than 600kg at any point during the race.

The team supplied reams of telemetry and fuel consumption data to support its case.

But Mosley says that a physical inspection of the cars after the race is the only reliable way to establish whether cars conform to the regulations.

?The only way we can be certain is to take the fuel out and weigh [the car],? he said.

The FIA president refuted paddock speculation that the governing body had been tipped off by former BAR employees with an axe to grind.

But he claimed he had been aware of rumours circulating during the winter that some teams might be circumventing the regulations in order to run underweight cars.

?Everybody who was really in the know in Formula 1 strongly suspected something was going on,? he said.

?I personally heard about it during the winter from someone who does not work in Formula 1 but works in top-level motorsport in America.?

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Where are you Baabaa (LoL, you still looking for a date or whatever?)

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...had plenty of time to compromise and resolve it, hell why didn't bernie ecclestone post here for an answer...

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