By Karl King
October 9 2005

BAR-Honda driver Takuma Sato has been excluded from the standings after a ludicrous attempted move on Toyota's Jarno Trulli in today's Japanese Grand Prix.

After branding the baby-faced Japanese 'dangerous,' Jarno and Richard Cregan made a visit to the stewards prompting an investigation after Sato pushed Trulli off track, and conceeded to drive on.

Sato later took his BAR-Honda to the finish in 13th, but has now been stripped of his result.

"The Stewards viewed the video of the incident and presented the same to Takuma Sato and his team manager Ron Meadows and independently to Jarno Trulli and his team manager Richard Cregan," read an FIA statement.

"Having heard both parties the stewards independently conclude that Takuma Sato was involved in an incident 'forcing the driver of car number 16 off the track' and therefore reprimand Sato and order that he be excluded from the results."

Panasonic Toyota fans can take little away from this result as the 13th place failed to score sato any points anyway.

Another loser is Jacques Villeneuve, who was handed a 25 second penalty after squeezing McLaren driver Juan Pablo Montoya off track.