Aston Martin have lodged a protest against the Austrian Grand Prix result claiming many track limit violations have gone unpunished.
In a brazen challenge to FIA led Formula 1 race direction and the deleted laps fiasco that marred Sunday’s race in Spielberg, Aston Martin are requesting the FIA to look into several incidents of track violations that they claim went unnoticed, in addition to the 100 the stewards already dealt with over the 71-lap race.
The FIA said in a statement following the protest: “A protest has been lodged by Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team against the provisional classification.
“The protest claims that a number of cars were not penalized for a breach of Article 33.3 of the Sporting Regulations.
“A hearing will be conducted at 1830 hrs (1730 BST),” the statement revealed. “In the meantime, the Stewards, having become aware of the existence of a number of deleted laps (due to exceeding track limits) that were drawn to our attention after the receipt of the protest, have requested Race Control to perform a reconciliation of all deleted laps with penalties applied.
“We note that Race Control dealt with in excess of 100 deleted laps during the race,” the FIA concluded.
Report in progress…