BAR in the clear?

BAR look set to avoid any potential suspension from the Formula One World Championship. FIA president Max Mosley said it would 'not be fair' to impose the ban suspended on the team following the San Marino GP because of the guilty verdict handed down by the World Motor Sport Council over the US GP fiasco.

The Honda powered team were banned for two races earlier this season for using illegal fuel tanks at Imola and were warned that any further break of the rules could result in a six month suspension.

However despite being found guilty – along with the six other Michelin teams – of failing to take the right tires to Indianapolis, and of wrongfully refusing to allow its cars to start the race, Mosley said the guilty verdict wouldn't trigger the ban.

"We considered that question carefully and we invited their counsel representative to make submissions on that point," he said. "The view of the World Council was that the two things were so different it would not be fair to impose the ban that was suspended.

"We really would only impose that ban if there was a repetition of an offence similar to the one for which the ban was imposed, and this seems to be quite different." Sky Sports