Aston Martin have lodged a petition for the FIA to overview the penalty given to Fernando Alonso for inflicting a collision with Carlos Sainz through the Chinese language Grand Prix Dash.
Alonso was making an attempt to carry off Ferrari’s Sainz for third within the shortened race when the pair collided in an incident at Flip 9.
Sainz sustained injury and dropped again from the third place he had simply taken to complete fifth, whereas a puncture to Alonso’s Aston Martin led to his retirement.
After reviewing the incident and interviewing each drivers after the occasion, the stewards gave Alonso a 10-second penalty – which was meaningless given his retirement – and three penalty factors to his licence.
The penalty factors have been important given Alonso picked up three for his half in an incident with George Russell on the Australian Grand Prix in March and is due to this fact already midway to the 12-point restrict for a year-long interval, the breaching of which results in a one-race ban.
Given the 10-second penalty had no impression on the race consequence, Aston Martin’s attraction would look like motivated by a want to scale back or take away the penalty factors.
The FIA launched a doc on Tuesday confirming Aston Martin’s petition for a proper of overview, with the listening to to be held by way of video convention on Friday at 1pm.
The primary a part of an F1 proper of overview listening to requires the interesting staff to provide a “important and related new aspect which was unavailable to the social gathering searching for the Overview on the time of the choice involved.”
Within the occasion the stewards settle for the a passable new aspect has been offered, a second a part of the listening to will probably be convened at a time to be suggested.
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Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz focus on their on observe battle on the Dash of the Chinese language GP.
Ferrari have additionally been instructed to ship a consultant to Friday’s listening to, at which level the groups will probably be in the US for this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix.
Moments after the collision with Alonso, Sainz grew to become concerned in one other tussle together with his team-mate Charles Leclerc, who was angered after being compelled off observe.
The stewards famous the incident between the Ferraris through the Dash however opted to not take any motion.
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Thursday Might 2
6.30pm: Drivers’ press convention
Friday Might 3
3pm: F1 Academy Follow 1
5pm: Miami GP Follow One (session begins at 5.30pm)
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Saturday Might 4
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