FIA REJECTS RED BULL APPEAL
The FIA has rejected Red Bull’s appeal to review the 10-second penalty the stewards gave to Lewis Hamilton for causing a collision with Max Verstappen during the British Grand Prix.
That dropped Hamilton from the lead to fourth place, but he went on to win the race.
“I don’t think the penalty was correct because basically, you take out your main rival, and especially with the speed we have with our cars, we are miles ahead of the third-best team,” Verstappen said.
“We are easily 40-50 seconds ahead in normal conditions, so a 10-second penalty doesn’t do anything. So definitely that penalty should have been more severe.”
Representatives of both Red Bull and Mercedes met with the stewards via video conference on Thursday at Hungary’s F1 circuit.
The regulations state that an appeal will only be considered if the competitor can present a “significant and relevant new element is discovered which was unavailable to the parties seeking the review at the time of the decision concerned, the stewards who have given a ruling or, failing this, those designated by the FIA, may decide to re-examine their decision following a petition for review.”
Most of the evidence Red Bull presented was derived from GPS data, and the stewards ruled that it was not a significant and relatively new element.
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