New evidence emerges that Hamilton was lying through his teeth
"On Thursday (in Malaysia) I would say he was just doing what he was told to do. The fact he came and apologized to me in Sepang sums it up pretty much. He came to me and wanted to talk to me privately, and just said he wanted to apologize for everything he'd done, and he wouldn't do it again, that sort of thing."
"We got into a little bit more detail of what happened when Trulli passed Lewis," added Whiting.
"Lewis did his best to fudge it, I would say, without responding completely and directly. I reminded him that I had asked him twice in Melbourne, 'Did you consciously let him (Trulli) past?' And he'd said no, Trulli had just passed him. I then said when the team asked you to let him past, you said 'I've already let him past'.
"I said to him if you had been surprised by that, surely you would have said, 'He's passed me!' instead of 'I've let him past'. Lewis didn't really have an answer for that. They were trying very hard to get off the important bit of the subject, and trying to divert the stewards' attention elsewhere. That's the impression I got anyway."
04/09/09 New evidence emerged on Thursday shedding further light on the McLaren ‘liegate’ scandal with the publication of the first account of what took place at the fateful second stewards hearing in Sepang.
A report on autosport.com revealed to what extent Lewis Hamilton and former sporting director Dave Ryan stuck to their initial story that Jarno Trulli had taken it upon himself to overtake the McLaren in Australia.
The pair refused to back down from that stance despite being presented with radio conversations and media interviews suggesting they were lying about deliberately letting Trulli through in the closing stages in Melbourne.
In an interview with autosport, an unnamed FIA source related: "First of all, Lewis heard the radio exchange. It appeared that the strategy was to be extremely vague and not be very direct with the answers. Then the interview where he said, ‘I was told to let him through’ was played.
"At that point they both got very uncomfortable, but still denied that’s what had actually happened. It was a bit surreal."