United States Grand Prix result finally confirmed after McLaren's late Lando Norris appeal

Lando Norris was deed with a five-second clip punishment successful the second stages of the United States Grand Prix, which McLaren attempted to overturn up of Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix

McLaren's attempts to overturn Lando Norris' punishment from the United States Grand Prix person failed.

Norris was deed with a five-seond clip penalty successful the precocious stages of past week's contention aft being judged to person gained an vantage erstwhile overtaking Max Verstappen by going disconnected the track. The British operator insisted Verstappen should besides person received a punishment, having ran wide himself.

But the stewards lone handed a punishment to Norris, dropping him backmost down his world title rubric rival successful the last classification. On Thursday, McLaren launched a close of reappraisal process, claiming they had caller grounds showing Norris should not beryllium punished.

The stewards from Austin called a gathering connected video call, with Red Bull sending a squad representative. Had the reappraisal been successful, Norris would person been classified arsenic finishing 3rd and Verstappen fourth.

Unfortunately for Norris though, the bid to person the punishment reviewed has been dismissed. The stewards met an hr aft the decision of FP1 astatine the Mexico Grand Prix play and deemed "there is nary relevent caller element".

McLaren's grounds was the determination papers which they claimed “contained a connection that was incorrect and that evidenced an objective, measurable and provable mistake had been made by the stewards”.

The determination papers from the U.S. Grand Prix read, “Car 4 was overtaking Car 1 connected the extracurricular but was not level with Car 1 astatine the apex”. McLaren insisted this was an mistake due to the fact that it “had grounds that Car 4 had already overtaken and was up of Car 1 astatine the braking zone".

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McLaren claimed this was technically significant, relevant, caller and unavailable to the Woking-based squad astatine the time. But the stewards focused connected the constituent of relevance erstwhile reaching their decision.

They insisted that arguing determination had been an mistake successful the archetypal determination papers was “unsustainable,” nor did it number arsenic a caller element. As a effect they person dismissed McLaren's review, though the squad importune that is the incorrect decision.

“We disagree with the mentation that an FIA document, which makes a rival alert of an objective, measurable and provable mistake successful the determination made by the stewards, cannot beryllium an admissible ‘element’ which meets each 4 criteria acceptable by the ISC, arsenic specified successful Article 14.3,” McLaren said successful a statement.

“We volition proceed to enactment intimately with the FIA to further recognize however teams tin constructively situation decisions that pb to an incorrect classification of the race.”

Norris meantime was besides near frustrated arsenic helium sits 57 points down Verstappen heading into the last 5 races of the season. Speaking up of the close of reappraisal meeting, helium insisted helium should not beryllium punished.

“He did what I conjecture helium thought was right, I did what I thought was right,” Norris said connected Thursday. “I inactive disagree, and I deliberation arsenic a team, we inactive disagree. I deliberation the bulk of radical who were watching disagreed with the punishment that I got.”