Red Bull case rejected as F1 war of words escalates
The Race F1 Podcast
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🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The race is on, and Red Bull's request to review Lewis Hamilton's British Grand Prix penalty in the hope of securing a harsher punishment has been rejected. |
| 0:15.5 | But the war of words has continued today in the Hungara ring paddock. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Ed Straw and I'm joined by Scott Mitchell |
| 0:21.8 | to explain what's happened and the implications on the title battle. Well, we'll dive straight |
| 0:27.7 | into it because there's lots to talk about, but first let's just stress what this was. This was |
| 0:33.1 | not a review of the penalty, but effectively the pre-hearing, which was to judge whether or not |
| 0:38.3 | Red Bull had brought the required new evidence to the table to justify reopening the case. |
| 0:43.1 | For a review to be approved, the FIA's International Sporting Code demands the production of |
| 0:47.8 | a significant and relevant new elements which was unavailable to the party seeking the review |
| 0:53.3 | at the time of the decision |
| 0:54.8 | concerned. So Scott, what did Red Bull submit and why wasn't it enough? So Red Bull's case was |
| 1:02.0 | partly based on GPS data that was available to the stewards at the time of the original |
| 1:06.2 | decision and partly its own simulated events. And the steward summary stated that Rebel's evidence consisted of several slides that |
| 1:14.0 | showed GPS data of Hamilton and Bastappen going into COPS, GPS data from Hamilton's |
| 1:19.1 | successful pass on Charlotte Clare at COPS later in the race, |
| 1:22.6 | alleged lap simulations of the incident, and a reenactment of Hamilton's line based on a lap allegedly |
| 1:29.1 | driven by Alex Albon. I think you can tell from that list itself why the petition was |
| 1:36.9 | dismissed. It was dismissed on the grounds that Red Bull's new evidence was not new evidence |
| 1:41.5 | at all. And it certainly wasn't discovered. It was created by the team |
| 1:45.2 | specifically for the purpose of submission. And obviously, the use of GPS data from Hamilton and |
| 1:51.0 | Gestappen, that was data that was already there at the time. So the stewards concluded that Red Bull |
| 1:57.7 | clearly didn't satisfy the requirements to merit a review. So it means |
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