BAR and Button get two-race ban

The BAR team has been banned for two races for running an underweight car at the San Marino Grand Prix.
An appeal court of motorsport's ruling body the FIA also stripped BAR of the 10 points won by Jenson Button and team-mate Takuma Sato at Imola.

But it stopped short of meeting the FIA's request that BAR be thrown out of the Formula One championship.

Button and Sato will now have to sit out Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix on 22 May.

And the decision to exclude BAR's San Marino GP results means the team will have no points when it returns for the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on 29 May.

A further six-month ban has been suspended for a year.

Button's car was found to be 5.4kg underweight when it was weighed at the end of the race at Imola last month.

The FIA found two additional fuel tanks within the main tank and argued that BAR had broken rules by using fuel as ballast to allow the car to run light during a race - giving it a speed advantage.

Button took third place behind Renault's Fernando Alonso and Ferrari's Michael Schumacher at Imola.