Audi has lodged an appeal against the Italian Grand Prix stewards' decision not to apply Formula 1's sporting regulations in relation to Yuki Tsunoda's alleged infringement of the start procedure at the first planned restart.
Tsunoda was due to line up 14th on the grid for the restart but initially headed towards the 15th-place grid slot, only to veer to the right-hand side. He was able to park up in the 14th-place slot and was not out of position beyond the forwardmost line, although his Racing Bulls car was pointing at a slight angle towards the pitwall.
Race director Rui Marques initiated another formation lap as a result as, in the words of the stewards, "he stated he was not comfortable starting the race with the car in that position." The matter was referred to the stewards, but in a post-race investigation into alleged breach of article B5.9.4 of the sporting regulations, relating to a driver causing an extra formation lap, they deemed Tsunoda had not been responsible for that.
Any driver who does cause an additional formation lap but is able to start that lap is required to "enter the pitlane at the end of the lap and must start the [session] from the end of the pitlane." But Racing Bulls successfully argued that Tsunoda's car had not been in a "false start" position with the contact patch of the front tyres outside of the grid box, that no other driver had been impacted by Tsunoda's position, and that Tsunoda had not been the "cause" of the extra formation lap nor had Racing Bulls been advised that he was the cause.
The main distinction therefore is that the stewards considered the "extra formation lap resulted from the race director's assessment of the situation" in deciding against applying the relevant article and said additionally that Racing Bulls had "in our determination, no reason to instruct its driver to enter and start from the pitlane." They determined they were unable to give Tsunoda a stop-and-go penalty as a result.
But Audi is contending that decision. It said in a short statement that it had "raised a concern regarding the application of Article B5.9.4" after the race and that following the stewards' "no further action" decision it had notified its intention to appeal. Audi would stand to benefit were Tsunoda to be penalised.
As standard, F1's sporting regulations state that any unserved stop-and-go penalty is converted to a 30-second post-race time penalty. That would drop Tsunoda - who scored the first point of his stand-in spell at Racing Bulls in 10th - to 15th in the classification, promoting Audi's Gabriel Bortoleto to the final points-paying position.
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