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FIA rejects Haas' request for review of US GP track limits breaches

The FIA has rejected the Haas Formula 1 team's right of review over alleged track limit infringements at Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix.

Last week it emerged that Haas had lodged a petition with the FIA to review various track limit breaches in Austin, asserting that several drivers had benefited from abusing track limits at COTA's Turn 6, that were not properly policed by race control.

Afterwards, several teams raised questions after seeing on-board images of competitors apparently crossing the white line, including Sergio Perez, Alex Albon, Logan Sargeant and Lance Stroll.

In an initial response, the FIA acknowledged that there had been "indication for possible track limit infringements in Turn 6" but without sufficient evidence to hand out penalties.

Haas disputed this, however, and launched a right of review procedure which hinges on the party in question providing new, significant and relevant evidence that wasn't available at the time.

Haas moved to ask for a right of review as in Sargeant's case a five-second penalty would have seen him lose his point for 10th place to Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg.

After a hearing which ran across Wednesday and Thursday and involved the respective team managers of Haas, Red Bull, Williams and Aston Martin, the FIA panel decided to reject Haas' request, meaning the matter is now closed.

In the hearing, which involved the respective team managers of Haas, Red Bull, Williams and Aston Martin, Haas submitted on-board footage from Perez, Albon, Sargeant and Stroll allegedly crossing track limits in Turn 6. 

Source: Autosport

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