Haas protest dismissed after missing out on possible podium finish at F1 Australian Grand Prix
The race 🐻at Albert Park was red-flagged after Kevin Magnussen crashed at Turn 2 after brushing the barriers. Race control decided to halt the race due to there being too much d𝄹ebris on the circuit.
The race soon resumed, with carnage ensuing as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz spun 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, while both Alpines, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nyck de Vries and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant were out of the race.
A third red flag was put out as a result, but it was unclear how the order w🍰ould be determined to finish the race🍸.
At the time the order on-track was: Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Carlos Sainz, Hulkenberg, Yuki Tsunoda, Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, Zhou Guanyu, Valtteri ൲Bottas, Se🔴rgio Perez, Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.
However, as race leader Verstappen hadn’t completed the first sec🦹tor, the FIA had no official reference of what the order was, thus they were forced to revert back to the original grid from the standing start.
As a result,ꦗ Hulken🌄berg dropped down from a provisional fourth - which would have been third thanks to Sainz’s incoming five-second penalty - to eighth.
Haas' official protest fell on deaf ears, though.
An FIA statement read: "Haas suggested that the relative positions of the cars could be established🐻 as at the SC2 line instead. They suggested that if that line was used then the starting grid position of their car would have been different.
"They acknowledged that the GPS data that showed the relative positions of the cars was unreliable for the purpose of establishing the order of cars. They cont🌸ended that instead of the last grid, that the timing data ought to have been used to establish the order of the cars."
The FIA justified t⛦heir decision: "This determination needed to be done in the context of a timed race event and therefore the decision of Race Control and the Race Director needed to be made promptly; with the exercise of appropriate discretion and by using the most appropriate information available to them at the time.
"In the circumstances, based on what we heard from the FIA representatives and from Haas, we considered that this was𓂃 in f🍒act done appropriately by the Race Director in this instance and therefore dismiss the protest."
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