Useless complaint
No good news for Aston Martin from the Miami commissioners office. There is no official announcement yet, but the right of revision requested by the British team regarding the contact occurred in the Shanghai Sprint race between Fernando Alonso and Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz was rejected. Aston’s goal was to at least see the sanction for its pilot has been mitigatedwho on this occasion received three penalty points on his Super License and is now just six points away from a possible disqualification which will hang over his head like a sword of Damocles for the entire season.
Official announcement coming in a few hours
There final official decision will have to be signed by the stewards who were in charge in Shanghai, but given the 12-hour time difference between Miami and Shanghai – where it’s currently the middle of the night – it won’t be available for several hours. From what we learn, however, the new evidence brought by Aston Martin was accepted, but these were not considered significant. Therefore, no change was made to the original decision, which had also included a 10 second penalty for Alonso, which the Iberian did not actually serve given his retirement following the contact.
