The Portuguese driver was stripped of his win within the inaugural Misano E-Prix earlier this month after his Porsche automobile failed post-race checks.
This was after FIA scrutineers discovered an ineligible throttle damper setting associated to the spring was fitted to the automobile.
The half in query had been beforehand used on the Gen2 machines however its inclusion within the “GEN3 Spark Catalogue” was eliminated when the brand new automobile was launched for the 2022-23 season.
Porsche admitted that the spring had been used on the automobile because the begin of the Gen3 period as solely the addition of recent components was highlighted within the catalogue, not if they’d been eliminated.
Forward of the Monaco E-Prix this weekend, da Costa believes that such a call hours after the race will not be good for the championship and is tough to elucidate to followers when the result of the outcome has modified.
“There isn’t a efficiency benefit, it’s actually a serial quantity mistake,” da Costa advised Autosport.
“Let’s discover one other approach, only for the great of everybody and the whole lot.
“Clearly on my aspect, it hurts as a result of I believed it was a well-executed race, I used to be tremendous cautious, I did the suitable issues on the proper occasions. Gained the race from thirteenth after which your factors are gone.
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“It was additionally a fantastic alternative for us to relaunch the championship, I might have been about fifth or sixth now and perhaps 20-30 factors away. Now I’m 69 factors away.
“We must be doing these penalties higher only for the great of the game, I feel.
He added: “Strive explaining to somebody how I misplaced the win [to fans], it’s unattainable. Folks don’t perceive.”
Instantly after the disqualification was introduced, Porsche lodged an intent to attraction the choice, giving the German producer 96 hours to resolve whether or not to take additional motion.
Forward of the deadline final week, the crew confirmed it will be interesting the choice with a listening to now as a result of happen in early June to find out if da Costa will probably be reinstated.
“It’s an indication that the factors are as essential for me as they’re for the crew,” he added.
“It’s an indication they need to be on the offensive and get these factors again. And I actually do consider we’re in the suitable.
“I’m not a cheater, no one here’s a cheater, I don’t like cheaters and if there was a efficiency benefit, I might be the primary one to say, ‘that is it, we’re accurately out of the race’, however that’s not the case. Let’s see the place it leads.”