Two meetings today – one at 15:00 and one at 18:00 (Italian time) – were not enough to reach a verdict: the right of review required by Mercedes against the defense of Max Verstappen during the 48th lap of the Brazilian Grand Prix it will be definitively accepted or rejected tomorrow. The matter could not have been handled worse: Race Director Michael Masi admitted that Max Verstappen’s on board was not available to Race Marshals in Brazil (a bit like not foreseeing goal line technology in a goal during a football match) and this easily opened the way for a shareable request to exercise the right of review by Mercedes, which although Lewis Hamilton won in Brazil obviously does not intend to leave any stone unturned in a world championship fight in which anything could do the difference. Max Verstappen could be sanctioned with penalty positions on the grid in Qatar given that in Brazil the incident was simply noticed and not even put under investigation.
The FIA has announced that the Commissioners will carefully consider the matter and that the verdict will be issued tomorrow. A Friday that promises to be rather hot and the circuit thermometer has nothing to do with it. The pilots, in fact, they intend to meet to discuss the obvious lack of consistency on the part of the Stewards based on the decisions taken in the last races in which it is objectively difficult to find consistency on the part of the Commissioners, who for example punished Gasly at the start in Turkey ‘forgiving’ Daniel Ricciardo in Mexico for two episodes that took place at the start in front of which he seems more guilty the McLaren driver – not sanctioned – compared to the French AlphaTauri (penalized by five seconds). See you tomorrow, therefore, to find out the outcome of the right to review required by Mercedes, yet another tug-of-war between Mercedes, Red Bull and a referee – the Commissioners and the FIA - increasingly in difficulty in outlining rules of engagement and battleground.
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