Red Bull’s review challenge against Lewis Hamilton’s British GP penalty for Max Verstappen collision rejected

Crimson Bull’s tried problem of the stewards’ verdict into Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen’s conflict is dismissed by stewards

British GP stewards have thrown out Crimson Bull’s request to reopen the investigation into Lewis Hamilton’s penalty for colliding with Max Verstappen within the British GP.

It means the outcomes of Silverstone, and Hamilton’s victory, definitively stand with the Englishman eight factors behind Verstappen heading into this weekend’s Hungarian GP, reside solely on Sky Sports activities F1.

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Watch the controversial first-lap conflict between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen within the British GP, with the contact sending the Crimson Bull high-speed into the obstacles

Crimson Bull invoked their proper of evaluate having felt the penalty of 10s imposed by Hamilton was too lenient.

To have an opportunity of the stewards reopening the case, Crimson Bull had been required to convey ahead a beforehand unseen “vital and related new aspect” of proof.

Nonetheless, after assembly with Crimson Bull and Mercedes representatives in a video name on Thursday afternoon, stewards dominated a number of hours later that the proof submitted didn’t warrant a evaluate of the incident.

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Two weeks on: What did Verstappen & Hamilton say in regards to the incident?

Verstappen: “The end result I feel he did not anticipate however I feel he positively misjudged the pace of coming into in such a decent angle into that nook, and that is why he understeered huge.

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Max Verstappen doesn’t suppose Lewis Hamilton needed to make him crash at Silverstone however feels that the penalty obtained was not extreme sufficient in regard to the lack of factors within the Championship

“After all I do not suppose he meant to make me crash in such a style, however that is not for me to reply, However nonetheless I did not rating any factors which is the worst [thing] about all of it.”

In the meantime, Hamilton, who mentioned he wouldn’t change any side of his driving within the incident, pointed to his expertise and success as proof of his knowhow in wheel-to-wheel fight.

Hamilton: “By way of the transfer, I might do the transfer precisely the way in which I did it final by way of how I’ve reviewed it and analysed from all my expertise.

“And my expertise over time speaks for lots – I wont change it. None of us ever wish to see one other driver injured or in harms method or put a driver in harms method.

“I did give Max a name after the race to examine if he was okay and let him know that the respect remains to be there.”