The FIA has dismissed the appeal filed by Aston Martin as a result of the disqualification of his German driver Sebastian Vettel in the last Hungarian Grand Prix – the last of the Formula One World Championship before the holiday break -, as announced on Monday.
Vettel had finished the aforementioned Grand Prix second –won by Frenchman Esteban Ocon, partner of Spaniard Fernando Alonso in Alpine-, but he was disqualified as he could not prove that, once the race was over, his car had the required minimum of one liter of fuel, but rather less than a third of that amount.
Aston Martin explains in a statement made public on Monday that it had evidence that Vettel’s car “had 1.74 liters of fuel”, but that the cause of not being able to show it it was “a leak derived from an error in the combustion system that led to an unexpected loss of that fuel”; explanation accepted by the FIA, which, however, rejected the review of its verdict.
After the disqualification of Vettel, the Englishman Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), seven times world champion and leader of the World Cup, rose to second place, while the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) and Fernando Alonso (Alpine) climbed to third and fourth place, respectively, in the final classification of the Hungarian Grand Prix.