Formula One: BAR and Button get two-race ban

[MaineDem]

The BAR team has been banned for two races for running an underweight car at the San Marino Grand Prix.

An appeal court of motorsport's ruling body the FIA also stripped BAR of the 10 points won by Jenson Button and team-mate Takuma Sato at Imola.

But it stopped short of meeting the FIA's request that BAR be thrown out of the Formula One championship.

Button and Sato will now have to sit out Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix on 22 May.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4514569.stm

The BAR team is very lucky that's all they were hit with.

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1. Catch 22

They can't throw them out as they have a contract with the promoter stating that each race there should be at least 20 cars on the grid.

If they throw them out, it will leave F1 with just 9 teams and 18 cars.