On Saturday in Brazil it was revealed Haas submitted a request to review to the FIA after the team had studied onboard videos of the lines taken at Turn 6 by various cars in the Austin race.
Several teams had questioned drivers cutting across the kerbs, but no times were deleted and no penalties resulted, with the FIA saying that it didn’t have a good CCTV view of the corner in question and thus no evidence.
A right of review hinges on new evidence, and Haas believes that the onboard footage qualifies as such, and indicates that Sergio Perez, Lance Stroll, Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant committed multiple offences that should have earned them time penalties.
McLaren is not impacted by the Haas request, with nothing to gain or lose. However, Stella said that such penalties can’t be applied retrospectively because there needs to be what is in effect a “three strikes” warning system to which that drivers can respond by modifying their lines.
“During the race, you are busy with many things,” said Stella when asked by Autosport if the team was aware of offences at COTA’s Turn 6.
“The only thing we were paying attention to is the information coming from the race direction about lap time deletion, because that's the official feedback you receive and that's what counts.
Source: Autosport