Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen have retained their positions from the end of the Monaco Grand Prix following a protest from Ferrari.
Ferrari claimed that both Perez and Verstappen crossed the pit lane exit line when making pit stops during the race on Sunday.
Perez went on to win the grand prix ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, while championship leader Verstappen took the finish in third place.
The stewards stated that in Verstappen’s case: “All parties agreed that Car 1 did have part of its front left and rear left tyre on the left side of the yellow line.
“All parties agreed that most of the left front and left rear tyres of that car remained on the yellow line.”
Red Bull asserted that it hadn’t breached any part of the International Sporting Code, while the stewards clarified that Article 5 of Appendix L of the ISC had changed from 2021 to 2022.
Article 5 c) of Chapter IV of Appendix L of the Code says that at the pit exit a car “must not cross” the line, and in Verstappen’s case, it was found that he didn’t cross the line as to do so, he “would have needed to have a full wheel to the left of the yellow line.”
Ferrari also claimed that the rule breached the Race Director’s pre-event notes, however the stewards say the notes can’t contradict the ISC or the sporting regulations.
In the case of race-winner Perez, Ferrari conceded at the hearing that Perez didn’t cross the pit lane exit after making his pit stop.
Verstappen now leads the Drivers’ standings by nine points over Charles Leclerc, while Perez is third in the championship, 15 points down on his team-mate.
To many Ferrari fans upset at the FIA and not at their team for the way they managed the race.
Ferrari are so desperate and need to get it together. I actually want to see them change their losing ways and win the championship this year — which should be happening in dominant fashion — but let’s face it since 2008 they have botched every opportunity possible, including this year. They should have had multiple championships with Alonso but constantly made the most bizarre strategy calls (still do) and produced crap cars, as if they were purposely trying to lose. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a team like this in all of F1 history who have so many great resources and mega budgets, but constantly screw up and lose. Maybe Toyota or Honda during the 2000s, but at least they had the excuse of not having 70+ years worth of F1 experience, and they knew when to quit. If it were not for the Schumacher-Todt-Brawn-Byrne era — the only reason they hold so many records — I actually wonder if the team or company as a whole would still exist at all as they had not won a WDC in over 20 years, and currently haven’t won one in 15 (which they only won because of Hamilton’s idiotic retirement in China).