Aston Martin’s petition for a proper to assessment the penalty given to Fernando Alonso within the Dash on the Chinese language Grand Prix has been rejected.
Alonso was penalized for inflicting a collision with Carlos Sainz late within the Dash in Shanghai, incomes a time penalty and three penalty factors that put him half approach to a race ban. Aston Martin lodged a petition for the suitable to assessment the penalty earlier this week, which means it needed to show there was a “important and related new component which was unavailable to the get together searching for the assessment on the time of the choice involved”.
The listening to passed off by way of videoconference on Friday morning because it concerned stewards from the earlier race who should not in Miami, and Aston Martin submitted that the “important and related new component” was the forward-facing digicam view from Alonso’s automobile, that was unavailable to the staff and the stewards on the time of the unique resolution.
Whereas the stewards agreed that the footage was new and unavailable on the time, they didn’t really feel it met the edge of being important, as a result of “whereas it confirmed the incident from a special angle, it added nothing materials to the visible perspective that we already had”.
In consequence, the request was dismissed and the penalty factors stand.
Alonso was important of FIA stewarding prior to the choice being made public on Saturday evening, as he acknowledged “I do really feel that nationality issues” in terms of penalties being given to drivers, following his feedback that Lewis Hamilton wouldn’t be penalized for his position in an incident at first of the Dash in Miami “as a result of he’s not Spanish”.
