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Prior o the
finish of the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix Felipe Massa and Sebastien Bourdais
weer under investigation for a coming together between the pair as Bourdais
exited the pits and Massa went around the Torro Ross driver.
It was announced that Bourdais
has received a twenty five second post-race penalty for his part in the
incident. This would drop Bourdais from sixth to tenth in the race results>
he would lose his points while Massa would move up to seventh from his
original eighth. Hamilton's championship advantage over Massa would be
reduced to five points.
The penalty moves Bourdais' teammate Vettel up to sixth ahead of Massa, and
gives Red Bull's Mark Webber a point for eighth place. |