Lewis and McLaren face exclusion -for 2007 maybe 2008
McLaren and Ferrari were due to attend a Court of Appeal hearing in Paris next Thursday after the Italian marque appealed the World Council of Motorsport's decision to impose no sanction on their Woking-based rivals.
However, with the emergence of new evidence, this meeting will no longer take place and instead a second hearing will take place a week from today.
None of the parties have yet indicated what the new evidence is, but after the first hearing in July, the FIA did say that the WMSC's decision was far from final.
Their statement at the time read: "If it is found in the future that the Ferrari information has been used to the detriment of the championship, we reserve the right to invite McLaren back in front of the WMSC where it will face the possibility of exclusion from not only the 2007 championship, but also the 2008 championship."