The FIA Court of Appeal has upheld the original decision of the stewards of the Australian GP, which means that Red Bull and Daniel Ricciardo have now definitively lost their second place.
The court, which sat on Monday, rejected the arguments from RBR about the unreliability of the Gill fuel flow sensor in the RB10.
The FIA noted: “On 16 March 2014 the panel of the stewards decided to exclude car N°3 (driver Daniel Ricciardo) from the results of the race as it was found to be not in compliance with the Technical Regulations (the Technical Delegate reported to the Stewards that car N°3 exceeded the required fuel mass flow of 100kg/h).
“The Court, after having heard the parties and examined their submissions, decided to uphold the Decision N°56 of the Stewards by which they decided to exclude Infiniti Red Bull Racing’s car N°3 from the results of the 2014 Australian Grand Prix.”
The team quickly responded by saying that it accepted the decision, and now wanted to move on.
A statement read: “Infiniti Red Bull Racing accepts the ruling of the International Court of Appeal today. We are of course disappointed by the outcome and would not have appealed if we didn’t think we had a very strong case. We always believed we adhered to the technical regulations throughout the 2014 Australian Grand Prix.
“We are sorry for Daniel (Ricciardo) that he will not be awarded the 18 points from the event, which we think he deserved. We will continue to work very hard to amass as many points as possible for the team, Daniel and Sebastian (Vettel) throughout the season. We will now move on from this and concentrate on this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix.”
The decision validates the FIA sensor as the approved method of measuring fuel flow. Had it gone against the governing body it would have set a precedent that could have called into question other parts of the rule book.
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But, haven’t they been using their own calculations in the last two races, anyway? Except in those scenarios the sensor has failed and they have gone through the correct procedures to use their own calculations? So they can go the whole season with failed sensors and using their own system. Which Mercedes said was worth 0.4s a lap. Unless the FIA can dictate against the volume of sensor failures, then they can merrily do this all season long and be within the rules. There are always loopholes.
NO Ceej
They have to comply with the rules and have been doing so,since the incident in Australia..
what it does mean is , if you look at the last race,Bahrain,the saftey car came out and slowed the race, allowing red bull to turn up the fuel.
its turning up the fuel that they cant do.
they must have some kind of fuel to power problem..
So look out for more saftey cars
think back to the last time we had deliberate crashes to fix a podium position…
All the Renault powered cars do…..fuel to power that is, also provides background to cooling issues…..