Lewis Hamilton's nightmare season went from bad to worse yesterday when motorsport's governing body, the FIA, announced that his McLaren team had been "invited" to appear before an extraordinary meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Paris at the end of the month.<br /><br />
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><strong>TROUBLED TIMES:</strong>u00a0Lewis Hamilton</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>This follows the accusations in Malaysia last weekend that they lied to the stewards of the Australian Grand Prix, which led to Hamilton and McLaren being disqualified from third place in Australia.<br /><br />It is thought that driver and team could now face exclusion from this year's championship if they are found guilty by the WMSC of the charges they face.<br /><br />The "invitation" to the meeting on Wednesday 29 April comes despite the disqualification; the suspension and departure of sporting director Dave Ryan; and public apologies from both Hamilton and the team principal Martin Whitmarsh.<br />u00a0<br />Whitmarsh said: "Davy made a serious error of judgement, and that is something we have to put right. Lewis was not entirely truthful, but Davy was the senior team member. We're trying to deal with a situation we got wrong."

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