Austrian Grand Prix 2023: McLaren's Lando Norris safety car appeal rejected

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McLaren's petition for a close to reappraisal Lando Norris' five-second punishment astatine the Canadian Grand Prix has been rejected.

Austrian Grand Prix stewards decided determination was "no significant, applicable and caller element" that was not disposable astatine the clip of the archetypal decision.

Stewards person to judge that determination is simply a caller constituent that was not antecedently considered to let a close of review.

It means Norris remains successful 13th place, to which helium was demoted from ninth.

Norris was penalised connected the grounds of having committed "unsportsmanlike conduct" for 'backing up' different drivers during a information car period, successful which Mclaren were doing a 'double-stack' pit halt wherever they serviced some drivers 1 aft the other.

McLaren had argued that assorted squad managers' meetings had suggested this signifier was not thing that should beryllium punished.

Representatives from different teams contiguous astatine the proceeding did not needfully stock their views oregon mentation of those meetings.

The determination is not taxable to appeal.

McLaren said successful a connection that they "believed that we provided capable new, important and applicable grounds to warrant a 'right of review'," adding: "We judge the stewards' determination that this grounds did not conscionable their requirements.

"While it is not the result we hoped for, we convey the stewards for their clip and collaboration."

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