The FIA has dismissed Ferrari's petition to review Sainz's penalty in the Australian GP. Developing story: F1
This came as part of several restart incidents to ultimately cause the grand prix to end behind the safety car, with the train of cars causing Sainz to drop from fourth to 12th in the final order as a result of his reprimand.
The stewards found Sainz to be"wholly to blame" for the collision with Aston Martin driver Alonso, who ultimately reclaimed third place due to the final result-deciding safety car classification being based on the previous restart grid order minus crashed cars. This kind of evidence, in the form of verbal testimony and additional data, has been previously used by Force India to overturn a similar reprimand, so cited Ferrari.But the FIA found the"factual circumstances" in Australia to be"quite different" to uphold the Scuderia argument, notably that the Force India driver had been taken to hospital following the collision so was unavailable to give their version for a post-race decision.
The FIA also decided that the extra telemetry presented by Ferrari was"at best ambiguous" when it came to clearing Sainz's name, but that it instead"corroborated" the decision that he was wholly at fault.Sainz did argue that he had braked harder for Turn 1 but with colder Pirelli tyres owing to the slow formation lap for the restart – a complaint voiced by many drivers – he had been less able to avoid Alonso. He also said the low sun had impaired visibility.
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