In this season that never ends, Formula One's next venue is the Supreme Court of Racing, the FIA's International Court of Appeal (ICA), located not in Paris this time, its usual courthouse, but on this occasion in the city of London given the transport strike in France.
The ICA has been asked by McLaren to reverse the decision of the Stewards at Interlagos on October 21, 2007 not to disqualify the BMW-Sauber and Williams-Toyota teams despite the findings of the FIA's Technical Delegate that the "temperature of the fuel going into the car during the race refueling ... was more than 10 degrees below the ambient temperature," which is beyond the tolerances permitted by Rule 6.5.5 of the Formula One Technical Regulations.
Of course, before we get to substance of the fuel temperature controversy, the procedural posture of the case is still critical.