McLaren's bid to overturn Lando Norris penalty is rejected by FIA after US Grand Prix controversy

McLaren's entreaty against Lando Norris's demotion at past weekend's US Grand Prix has been rejected by nan FIA stewards.

The British squad launched a correct of reappraisal action on Thursday and a gathering was convened for Friday to find if they had important caller evidence.

Without that nan determination to enforce a five-second punishment connected Norris for overtaking Max Verstappen disconnected nan circuit would stand. And that is really nan matter was settled.

The upshot is that Verstappen's 3rd spot stands, arsenic does Norris's fourth. Verstappen's lead, therefore, remains astatine 57 points going into Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix.

The stewards' adjudication rejected McLaren's declare that Verstappen was nan overtaking car, having been passed by Norris successful nan braking area (though not nan apex).

The stewards said: 'In narration to relevance, McLaren appears to taxable that nan Stewards uncovering that "Car 4 had overtaken Car 1 earlier nan apex (and truthful that Car 1 was nan overtaking car) and that this asserted correction is itself, a caller element.

'This is unsustainable. A petition for reappraisal is made successful bid to correct an correction (of truth aliases law) successful a decision. Any caller constituent must show that error. The correction that must beryllium shown to exist, cannot itself beryllium nan constituent referred to successful Article 14.

'In this case, nan conception that nan written Decision was nan important and applicable caller element, aliases that an correction successful nan determination was a caller element, is not sustainable and is, truthful rejected.'

McLaren responded pinch a connection of their own: 'We admit nan stewards' determination to cull our petition requesting a correct of review.

'We disagree pinch nan mentation that an FIA document, which makes a competitor alert of an objective, measurable and provable correction successful nan determination made by nan stewards, cannot beryllium an admissible 'element' which meets each 4 criteria group by nan ISC, arsenic specified successful Article 14.3.

'We would for illustration to convey nan FIA and nan stewards for having considered this lawsuit successful a timely manner.

'We will proceed to activity intimately pinch nan FIA to further understand really teams tin constructively situation decisions that lead to an incorrect classification of nan race.'