Fernando Alonso has regained his third-place end within the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after Aston Martin requested a Right of Review on Sunday night time…
Alonso briefly led the race within the opening laps however was quickly handed a five-second penalty for lining up exterior his grid slot. However, the two-time champion was then handed an additional 10-second penalty for not serving the primary penalty appropriately, which dropped him out of the rostrum locations and promoted Mercedes’ George Russell to P3.
The stewards initially dominated that, because of the rear jack touching the automobile previous to the 5 seconds having elapsed, the penalty had not been served appropriately.
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However, the FIA have now reversed their resolution, releasing a doc that stated Aston Martin had submitted a letter to evaluate the 10-second penalty.
“In support of the Petition for Review, the Stewards were shown minutes of the latest SAC meeting and video evidence of 7 different instances where cars were touched by the jack while serving a similar penalty to the one imposed on Car 14 without being penalized.
“The clear submission by the Team was that the alleged illustration of an settlement between the FIA and the groups that touching the automobile in any approach, together with with a jack, would represent ‘working’ on the automobile for the needs of Article 54.4 (c) of the Sporting Regulations, was incorrect and due to this fact the premise of the Stewards’ resolution was mistaken.
“In the light of the Petition, the Stewards had to decide if there was a ‘significant and relevant new element [that was] discovered which was unavailable to the parties seeking the review at the time of the decision concerned’. If there was such an element(s) then the Stewards would need to consider whether the decision needed to be modified in any way.
“Having reviewed the video proof offered and having heard from the Team consultant of Aston Martin and the related members from the FIA, the Stewards decided that there did exist important and related new proof as required below Article 14.1.1 to set off a evaluate of the choice, specifically the video proof and the verbal proof from the Team and from the FIA. It was clear to us that the substratum of the unique resolution, specifically the illustration of there being an settlement, was referred to as into query by the brand new proof.
“We therefore proceeded to hear the substance of the request for review. Having reviewed the new evidence, we concluded that there was no clear agreement, as was suggested to the Stewards previously, that could be relied upon to determine that parties had agreed that a jack touching a car would amount to working on the car.
“In the circumstances, we thought of that our authentic resolution to impose a penalty on Car 14 wanted to be reversed and we did so accordingly.”
Alonso due to this fact retains his third-place end at Jeddah and his a hundredth F1 profession podium end.
