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While being forced to start last seems extremely harsh to me, I can understand the stewards' logic. Had Hamilton arrived to the pits, he would have been disqualified from qualifying after having failed to meet a technical requirement, and there wouldn't have been any cause for an argument. It's pretty much the same as when they disqualified the Sauber cars from a race (I don't remember which one it was) after a bodywork infringement.

Now, the only difference is that Lewis did have enough fuel to provide a sample, it's just that had he completed his lap (if he could), he wouldn't have been able to do so, which would have caused him to be disqualified. I suppose that the stewards decided that, given that he wouldn't have been able to provide a sample, the penalty should be the same.

Then again, I'd like to point out that sometimes people are much harder with McLaren and Ferrari that they are with other teams. Mercedes screwed Schumacher royally in China and Bahrain, while poor management meant that Webber was unable to get into Q3. Yet I don't see the amount of criticism towards them that I've seen towards Macca and Ferrari.