Liuzzi Loses Appeal to Keep Fuji Point

Toro Rosso's Vitantonio Liuzzi, who came in 8th place during the Japanese Grand Prix two weekends ago, failed in the appeal against the point stripped from him after he was found guilty of overtaking Spyker's Adrian Sutil under yellow flags.

The FIA stuck by their decision to penalise the Toro Rosso team, which would have scored their first point finish during the Japanese Grand Prix if not for the 25-second penalty handed out to Liuzzi, and awarded the single point to Spyker's Adrian Sutil. A week later, in the Chinese Grand Prix, Toro Rosso showed that they might be a force to reckon with in 2008 with a strong 4th place finish by rookie Sebastian Vettel and a 6th place by Liuzzi.

Post Japanese GP: Mix Ups, Penalties and More

After a weird pit-stop call for both Ferraris at the beginning of the race, all came to light during the press conference when an unhappy Kimi Raikkonen said that both him and Massa were told to come into the pits to have their tires changed. It turned out that FIA's email to the teams telling them to start on extra wet tires for the race did not manage to land in the Ferrari mailbox until late.

As a result, both Ferraris, which started on intermediate tires as they had set the car up for a dry race. Unfortunately, this resulted in a compulsory pitstop for both of them, which might have cost Kimi Raikkonen his Drivers' Championship chances.

Sebastian Vettel was ruled as the guilty party in the collision with Mark Webber, and as a result, he is hit with a 10 place penalty which will be carried over to the Shanghai Grand Prix next weekend.

His teammate, Vitantonio Liuzzi, who scored his first point of this season for himself and Toro Rosso, was unable to enjoy his solitary point for more than 5 hours after he was found guilty of overtaking under yellow flag. Adrian Sutil, in a very much improved Spyker, would be more than happy to score the first point for his team and himself after finishing in the 9th place initially, but would now move up one position in place of Vitantonio.

Spyker Sold to Michiel Mol and Vijay Mallya

The sale of Spyker F1 Team to Michiel Mol and Vijay Mallya has been announced. Spyker F1, whose drivers are perpetually out of point-scoring positions (whether is it the machine or the man, well, we'll leave it to you), bought over Midland F1 Racing (which bought over Jordan Grand Prix). None of these 3 teams were ever top-tier racing companies, which lead us to wonder if such teams are always at the bottom because of the limited development capabilities.

Bernie Ecclestone, owner of Formula 1, for one, isn't apologetic for Spyker's short stint in Formula 1. He expressed his feelings about how Spyker had not contributed anything to the sport freely, and the deal would be finalised on September 29.

Spyker's highest ever finish in a race was in last week's Belgian Grand Prix, when Adrian Sutil finished in 14th position.