Stewards have deemed that the new evidence supplied by Ferrari relating to Sebastian Vettel’s incident in Canada is inadmissible, ostensibly bringing the case to a close. Vettel was judged to have re-joined the track unsafely and caused the pursuing Lewis Hamilton to take evasive action when he went off at Turn 4 two-thirds of the race through the race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Stewards slapped Vettel with a race-defining five-second time penalty, the offence of which was contested by Ferrari. It declined to appeal, given that time sanctions cannot be debated in such a fashion, but it invoked the right to review, under Article 14 of the FIA’s International Sporting...
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