McLaren have formally lodged an appeal against the decision not to penalise three drivers in Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix because of fuel irregularities.
McLaren have appealed to the sport's governing body, the FIA, after Williams driver Nico Rosberg and the BMW Sauber pairing of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica were not punished under rules relating to fuel temperatures.
Should the three drivers have their results in the race at Sao Paolo nullified then McLaren's Lewis Hamilton would win enough points to be crowned world champion instead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, the winner of the last race of the season.
Raikkonen won the race to take the Formula One crown by a single point from McLaren's 22-year-old British driver Hamilton and his Spanish double world champion team-mate Fernando Alonso.
McLaren are appealing the stewards' decision to take no action against Williams and BMW Sauber, whose fuel was found by checks after the race to have broken technical regulations because it was more than 10 degrees Celsius below the ambient temperature.
Fuel performs better at cooler temperatures, giving a potentially significant performance advantage.
Stewards found that there was a 'considerable discrepancy' between ambient temperatures recorded by Formula One Management's monitors and the FIA-contracted meteorologists Meteo France.
They ruled that there was therefore 'sufficient doubt' as to render a penalty inappropriate. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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