Formula One servants were rejected on Friday Request Mercedes to review the decision not to punish the Red Bull Max Verstappen Championship leader for the Grand Prix Sao Paulo incident with Lewis Hamilton.
They said in a statement in front of the Qatar Grand Prix that while Mercedes had presented new and relevant video evidence of Interlagos, it was not significant.
“The position of competitors is that this new recording provides enough information for the stewards to achieve different conclusions than they did before,” he explained.
“However, the servants determined that the recording showed anything extraordinary that was very different from the other angles available for them at the time, or specifically changed their decisions …” to meet the requirements for the judicial rights below.
The sports code, a team must present significant, relevant, new and previously not available to the parties concerned.
Seven Times World Champion Hamilton won the race in the Interlagos last week to cut the overall tin verstappen to 14 points with three remaining races.
The couple fled on lap 48 because Hamilton tried to pass and Verstappen to defend aggressively with the movement felt by the Mercedes Briton team had to draw time sentence for Dutch young people.
If they did it retrospectively, Verstappen risked losing more points.
The servants recorded events during the competition but concluded, based on the evidence they had, that there was no investigation needed.
They heard from Mercedes, who led Red Bull in the constructor standings of 11 points, and the Verstappen team at the Losail Circuit on Thursday.
The Mercedes Toto Boss Toto Wolff said the decision was truly expected.
“We want to trigger a discussion around it,” he told reporters.
“I think that goal is reached.
We don’t really think it will go further.” The Red Bull boss Christian Horner said it was the right result.
“It will open the Pandora box about a number of other incidents that occur in the race,” he said.
Sao Paulo GP: STEWARD F1 Reject Mercedes Request to Be reviewed
