Race to the Courthouse
The FIA's International Court of Appeal used to hear only one or two F1 cases on average each year. But, unnoticed by many, the ICA rules have been amended just recently, and our legal expert Thomas O'Keefe predicts the 'Supreme Court of Racing' will hold an even bigger role in Formula One in the years to to come...
It is symptomatic of the 2007 Formula One season that the last venue where the championship was decided was not on a racetrack but in the splendid conference room of Sidley Austin in London, where the FIA's International Court of Appeal (ICA) ruled that the results at Interlagos would stand and that Kimi Raikkonen would be crowned the 2007 world champion.
And who is Sidley Austin? A successor to Lord Austin's Motor Company perhaps, or to sports cars marque Austin-Healey?
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