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BAR guilty of cheating, banned for two races

AFP,  May, 2005  

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PARIS (AFP) — Jenson Button's BAR Honda team have been banned from competing in the next two Grand Prix after being found guilty of cheating at last month's race in San Marino.

The verdict was handed out by motor racing's governing body the International Automobile Federation (FIA) on Thursday after its International Court of Appeal ruled that the car Button drove to finish third at Imola was underweight.

In addition to being excluded from the next two races BAR have retrospectively been thrown ...