Its Thursday afternoon and the official word is out: Both protests from Toronto written on James Stewart for riding in such a way as to put others in danger (or something like that) were upheld.
Tedesco's protest of Stewart resulted in a $2,000 fine and a verbal warning. The FIM rep John Gallagher took into account that he hadn't seen any riding like this in previous WSX races, so this was pretty much a 'first offense" thing.
With the Preston protest, the result was $4,000, the maximum allowed, another warning, and probation that will last until Las Vegas finals 2007. If another thing happens like James landing on someone and it was considered preventable, it could mean him losig FIM points for that round.
It should be noted that the AMA doesn't have to accept James probation status or really pay attention to that. So he could have a problem and lose FIM points and not AMA, in theory anyway.
