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Lewis Hamilton and McLaren have been disqualified from the Australian Grand Prix after stewards decided that Hamilton had deliberately misled them when providing evidence about an incident that saw him passed by Jarno Trulli during a safety car period.

The Italian was handed a 25-second penalty following the incident on lap 57 at Melbourne, which relegated him from third to 12th in the final classification and saw Hamilton promoted from fourth to third.

But both drivers were called before the stewards in Sepang today to address new evidence on the incident.

Following the hearing, the stewards decided to reinstate Trulli’s third place and to sanction Hamilton and McLaren by excluding them from the race classification.

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Thank you jesus for the new F1 season. I watched the qualifying and the race last weekend and it was one of the more entertaining Grand Prix weekends I have watched in a long time. Even the qualifying was great. Non-stop changing of P1 right up until the last seconds. And even though I did confess to not being able to stand Jenson Button, I did find myself secretly routing for the new Brawn GP team.

What a start for the new team, although it should really be “new” in quotations. Honda have been working on that car since last season, when they gave up hope on the 2008 car and dived into developing the 2009 car – and didnt it pay off. Well remains to be seen if the diffuser used by Brawn, Williams and Toyota will stand up to the scrutiny of an appeal. I hope it does. It looks like a bit of a tantrum from the teams that complained about it, throwing their toys out of the pram etc.

I dont think it will be long before the rest of the teams catch up. And Lewis Hamilton showed what a talented driver he really is by claiming a third spot (but no podium though – ha ha) when starting from practically the back of the grid in a less than perfect (ie shite) car. Of course the crashes, retirements, 2 safety car periods and a 25 second penalty for Jarno Trulli did work in his favour.

Next race is Malayasia this weekend, another early race, or very late if you stay up to watch it. I dont, thank god for sky+