Disagreeing with the choice to not overview the penalty given to Lando Norris at COTA, McLaren seeks a way for groups to constructively problem such choices in future.
To ensure that the penalty to be reviewed the Woking group first had to offer proof that was not obtainable to the COTA stewards on the time they made their authentic resolution.
Sometimes this would possibly contain movie footage or telemetry knowledge, nonetheless McLaren argued that the unique verdict, whereby discovering that Norris was not stage with Verstappen on the apex was an error and that the Briton had overtaken the Crimson Bull earlier than the apex (and due to this fact that the Dutchman was the overtaking automobile) was a brand new component in itself.
“A petition for overview is made as a way to appropriate an error (of truth or legislation) in a call,” argued the FIA. “Any new component should exhibit that error, the error that have to be proven to exist, can not itself be the component referred to in Article 14.”
With the matter now closed and never open to additional attraction, McLaren admits to not agreeing with the choice however going ahead will work with the FIA in a bid to discover a means whereby groups can “constructively” problem future choices.
“We acknowledge the Stewards’ resolution to reject our petition requesting a Proper of Evaluate,” mentioned the Woking group in a subsequent assertion.
“We disagree with the interpretation that an FIA doc, which makes a competitor conscious of an goal, measurable and provable error within the resolution made by the stewards, can’t be an admissible “component” which meets all 4 standards set by the ISC, as laid out in Article 14.3.
“We want to thank the FIA and the stewards for having thought-about this case in a well timed method.
“We are going to proceed to work intently with the FIA to additional perceive how groups can constructively problem choices that result in an incorrect classification of the race.
“Whether or not that ought to be the case or not, nonetheless, is a matter for the regulator (i.e. the FIA) and never the Stewards, whose function is to use the rules in a good and impartial method.”
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