Controversial preferential treatment give to McLaren on European GP.
Alonso won the race on 2:06:26.358, six and half minute more minutes of two hours limit for a F1 race sufficient to pass Massa. Lewis Hamilton’s crane-lift out of the Nurburgring gravel trap and Liuzzi and Speed remained beached at turn 1.
Some observers had wondered if McLaren’s championship leader had received preferential treatment, after the similarly stricken cars of his rivals were hauled away from the track rather than back to it. Toro Rosso, however, clearly objected to the marshals’ response to Hamilton, after refusing to issue a post-race statement when both Vitantonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed remained beached at turn 1.
A subsequent report on the Faenza based team’s website said the Hamilton scenario was “something never before seen in F1″.