Originally Posted by dsweetenham:
“now it seems it was low fuel, tweet from Ted Kravitz
Hamilton's car had 1.3 litres of fuel remaining in tank after he stopped. You need 1lt for FIA sample and approx 2lt for in lap.
Fundamental error from McLaren (again)? He had half a second in his pocket! McLaren got away with it in Canada a couple of seasons ago but you have to say they probably deserve a penalty.”
Martin Whitmarsh did seem a bit economical with his comments both on BBC and Sky as to why Lewis had to stop on the circuit. All this business if 'we have to study the data' then it was revealed that the team had told Lewis to stop, so by that Martin would have known exactly why they told him to stop the car immediately.
I thought Jake was very quick in his commenting, when Lewis came out of the garage after he had weighed-in, he was beckoned over to one of the team who whispered something in his ear, to which Jake immediately said wtte, 'probably telling Lewis not to give the real reason why he had to stop on track'.

Well done to Jake, think he hit the nail on the head there!
By not doing the in lap they saved fuel, and also saved the tyres from further degradation, especially as it was that lap which gained him the pole.
Watch this space, it all seems a bit suspicious.