Bill, it was the fuel in the cars and not in the fueling rig.
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=41157
"...After Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix the stewards analysed fuel
samples taken from the Williams and BMW cars during their pit stops,
which appeared to show temperatures outside the permitted range..."
At 08:10 PM 10/21/2007, you wrote:
>It wasn't the fuel in the car, it was the fuel being delivered by the
>fueling rig, They are allowed to have cooling, in fact all teams do,
>but they have to stay within a specific range of ambient. The
>brouhaha is that they BMW and Williams teams were a few degrees
>cooler than they were supposed to be. The mitigating circumstance is
>that the officially measured ambient temperature and the unofficially
>measured ambient were further apart than at any event this year. The
>stewards initially decided not to apply a penalty, but their
>reasoning had to do with technical issues that they are not qualified
>to determine. So the potential for a change in the championship still
>exists--McLaren has filed a protest and it will need to be considered.
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