Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher was banished to the back of the Monaco Grand Prix starting grid on Saturday after stewards stripped him of pole position for a driving infringement.
They said in a statement that the seven-times champion had deliberately stopped his car on the track at the penultimate Rascasse corner in the closing seconds of qualifying, preventing rivals from setting a faster time.
Renault’s Spanish world champion Fernando Alonso will now start on pole with Australian Mark Webber alongside in a Williams.
Nearly eight hours after qualifying had ended, and with Schumacher leaving the paddock after an impromptu meeting with reporters to protest his innocence, the governing International Automobile Federation issued the stewards’ verdict.
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