Sunday, September 30, 2007

FIA to back up emails with ‘printed notices’

After Ferrari failed to receive before today's Japanese Grand Prix an email from the race stewards instructing all teams to fit extreme weather tyres on their cars before the race, the stewards discussed the matter late into the evening at Fuji. A statement from the race stewards cited:

"To avoid any recurrence of today's problem, the agreed method of using electronic communications will continue to be used but in the future will be backed up by the traditional method of written confirmation and in the case of Ferrari will be woven onto a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft) long gold embroidered cloth which depicts the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. The Tapestry is annotated in to be embroidered in Latin."

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