The FIA has dismissed the Scuderia petitioning Sainz’s five-second penalty that was awarded in Melbourne for the Spaniard hitting Fernando Alonso on the last standing restart.
With the spherical closely disrupted and in the end ending with a procession behind the security automotive, the reprimand dropped Sainz from fourth on the flag all the way down to a point-less twelfth.
Ferrari launched its proper of overview request on the grounds that the choice was made in-race, reasonably than permitting the driving force to current their defence to the stewards.
It cited a Power India case from 2014 as a precedent for having the ability to supply a driver witness assertion and new telemetry knowledge to get such a punishment overturned.
Sainz’s late braking level forward of the Flip 1 collision was supplied to the FIA, along with the driving force arguing too cool tyre temperatures from a gradual formation lap and low solar impairing visibility had contributed to the crash.
However the FIA threw the case out on the grounds this didn’t meet the required “important and related new data which was unavailable to the events looking for the overview on the time of the choice involved”, whereas additionally arguing all drivers had been confronted with the identical situations as Sainz.
Carlos Sainz, Ferrari SF-23
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Ferrari has issued an announcement in response, saying that it was glad it had supplied sufficient new data but it surely was “respectful” of the FIA course of and consequence.
The workforce bulletin learn: “We acknowledge the FIA determination to not grant us a proper of overview in relation to the penalty imposed on Carlos Sainz on the 2023 Australian Grand Prix.
“We’re naturally dissatisfied and felt that we had supplied adequate new components for the FIA to re-examine the choice particularly within the context of the actual situations and a number of incidents that occurred throughout the last restart.
“We’re nevertheless respectful of the method and of the FIA determination.”
Ferrari, who reached a non-public settlement with the governing physique in early 2020 after its engine fuel-flow system was investigated, added: “We at the moment are trying froward to coming into broader discussions with the FIA, F1, and all of the groups, with the goals of additional enhancing the policing of our sport, so as to guarantee the very best degree of equity and consistency that our sport deserves.”