On Tuesday, the race stewards were re-convened to review the penalty placed on the driver that caused him to drop from 4th to 12th. The decision was that there was “no significant and relevant new element” presented by the team.
As such, the petition was dismissed.
At the Australian GP, Sainz was given a five-second penalty after he collided with Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso. The penalty caused him to drop further than it would normally have because, at the time, the field was compressed as there had already been a number of race stoppages.
Going into the appeal, Ferrari claimed that they had three new pieces of information that were not considered by the race stewards at the time.
The info they had included the telemetry data from Sainz’s car, Sainz’s witness statements, and the third was a statement from other drivers.
One of the statements they used was Alonso saying that he thought the penalty was harsh.
The new information was considered as not significant enough. This included the statement of the other drivers.
It is also claimed that the telemetry of Sainz’s car had already been viewed excessively and that the statement from Sainz himself was unnecessary.
“Had we thought that this required a statement from Sainz for us to analyze the event, we would have summoned him after the race,” the verdict said.
After the verdict was announced, Ferrari made a statement saying: “We are naturally disappointed, and felt that we had provided sufficient significant new elements for the FIA to re-examine the decision, especially in the context of the particular conditions and multiple incidents that occurred during the final restart.”
Sainz remains in the fifth spot in the race to the Driver’s championships.