This damning verdict from the stewards follows an investigation into the results of the recent United States Grand Prix after a right of review protest was launched by the Haas team.
Haas might have elevated its driver Nico Hulkenberg into the points after drawing attention to cases of Alex Albon, Logan Sargeant, Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll exceeding the Austin track limits at Turn 6 which were not identified by the stewards during the race.
While the protest has been thrown out since Haas’ case relied onboard footage that was available at the time so did not satisfy the criteria for “significant” and “relevant” new evidence, the FIA has acknowledged failings surrounding the policing of track limits.
In the stewards’ verdict pertaining to the Haas protest, they acknowledge an “inability” from the FIA to uniformly uphold the current standards to which track limits should be enforced.
They therefore recommend the rapid deployment of a solution for this “complete unsatisfactory” handling.
The stewards determined: “Given that, notwithstanding the formal outcome of this [Haas] decision, the stewards have seen individual pieces of evidence that show what appear to be potential track limit breaches at the apex of Turn 6, they find their inability to properly enforce the current standard for track limits for all competitors completely unsatisfactory and therefore strongly recommend to all concerned that a solution to prevent further reoccurrences of this widespread problem be rapidly deployed.”
Source: Autosport