Red bull request to review Hamilton’s 10sec penalty

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Red bull’s request to review the penalty given to Hamilton after the 180 mph incident in the Silverstone Grand Prix which sent the current driver’s championship leader, Max Verstappen into the barrier at copse corner was dismissed by the FIA stewards.

The incident was a $1.8 million setback for the team according to Red Bull team Principal Christian Horner. Red Bull Racing says Hamilton’s 10-second penalty is “Mild penalties for these types of incidents”

The FIA review was held and the hearing happened right before the Hungarian Grand Prix probably to disperse some the heat between the seven time world champion and Max Verstappen.

Evidence presented by red bull

Four pieces of evidence were used by Red Bull to support their case

According to the FIA:

GPS data from the cars involved in the accident on copse corner, namely Car 44 driven by (HAM) and Car 33 driven by (VER)
The line taken by HAM ( 44) on the same corner against the Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc later on in the race, again using GPS data
A rap simulation of the incident was also shown.
A reenactment of Lewis Hamilton’s Lap 1 line at Silverstone was done based on a Rap driven by Alexander Albon

Considerations and statement given by the stewards

The new evidence according to FIA was not significant and new , it was basically derived from evidence already considered at the time of the decision made to give a 10 sec penalty to Hamilton

The evidence in appendix 2 were not “discovered” but created based on GPS data to support the petition , which is in clear violation of article 14

Without any surprise the Stewards ruled in favour of Mercedes and Hamilton.

Daniel Riccardo’s statement after the Grand Prix

The current Mclaren driver Daniel Ricciardo was clearly neutral and called the incident “completely unintentional”

“When you’re in such a high-speed corner and just side-by-side, you’re both going to lose aero, particularly Lewis there with Max kind of in a little bit of dirty air,” Ricciardo said.

“But I think they were both going in hot.

“Ultimately Lewis went in too hot for the given level of grip and that’s where you see he just drifted up into Max.

“Completely unintentional, but just the nature of the aero on these cars and you just have to allow a little more.Official statement source

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