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News in from Don that MS has been penalised and will be forced to start from the back of the grid for Sunday's race.

It certainly took the stewards a long time to come to th decision, and from the announcement from Ferrari it looks like the team are not happy.

This from the stewards, "Having compared all relevant data, the stewards can find no justifiable reason for the driver to have braked with such undue, excessive and unusual pressure at this part of the circuit, and are therefore left with no alternatives but to conclude that the driver deliberately stopped his car on the circuit in the last few minutes of qualifying, at a time at which he had thus far set the fastest laptime."

and Ferrari's response, "We totally disagree with it (the decision).  Such a decision creates a very serious precedent, ruling out the possibility of driver error. With no real evidence, the stewards have assumed he is guilty."