In scrutineering checks after the race the FIA could only retrieve 0.3 litres of fuel from the automobile, when the foundations mandate that one litre ought to be left within the tank for sampling.
The group believes that 1.74 litres of gas ought to have been within the automobile, and thus there are nonetheless 1.44 litres within the system that the FIA couldn’t retrieve.
Vettel had stopped two corners from the tip of the in-lap after the race after struggling what the group believes was a problem with the raise pump.
It additionally believes that the pump failure may clarify why the gas has not been discovered.
The automobile will stay impounded within the FIA pit storage in Budapest in a single day and additional work to search out the lacking gas will doubtlessly then be undertaken on Monday.
At intention to attraction in impact buys time and permit group to contemplate its case earlier than it formally decides to go forward with the attraction.
“I can affirm an intent to attraction,” group principal Otmar Szafnauer informed Autosport. “So as soon as we be taught extra, then if we’ve grounds we are going to attraction, and if not, we’ll drop it. However we’ve 96 hours.
“By all of our calculations, there ought to nonetheless be 1.44 litres of gas left within the automobile after the 300 millilitre pattern was taken.
Sebastian Vettel, Aston Martin AMR21
Photograph by: Charles Coates / Motorsport Images
“And we simply have to point out the FIA that it was in there, and 300 millilitres is sufficient for his or her gas pattern. And that would be the foundation of the attraction.
“So the automobile will likely be impounded. So we’ll simply go in and discover the gas and measure it. We’ll determine it out.”
Concerning the raise pump failure he stated: “It seems like, I do not know, we have not taken it aside but. However for some motive the raise pumps would not get the gas out of the automobile.”
The group can calculate how a lot gas is within the automobile as a result of it is aware of how a lot went in earlier than the beginning, and since the FIA gas circulation meter offers an correct official report of what was used through the race.
“We measure the gas that goes in,” stated Szafnauer. “And the gas circulation meter that we’ve within the automobile, which is remitted by the FIA, measures how a lot gas will get used.
“So the distinction between what went in, and what’s used, is what’s left. And that is how we all know there’s 1.74 litres left.
“We now have that, the FIA work to the gas circulation meter, they’ve all that information, we provide them with the information of how a lot gas we put in, they’ve the power to test that at any time. So all that information is accessible.”
The issue for the group is that the foundations state clearly {that a} litre of gas must be bodily retrieved from the automobile, Szafnauer famous: “It’s an {old} rule that goes again to the times earlier than we had all this metering and all of the measurements.”