Alpine won the appeal, Alonso recaptured Austin’s 7th place finish

After the Texas race, Haas filed a complaint against Alpine for failing to fly an orange and black flag on Alonso. That flag would have indicated to the Spaniard that his car was potentially dangerously damaged – the shattered right-hand mirror pulsing after his collision with Lance Stroll – forcing the Spaniard to pit to fix the problem.

In Austin, marshals upheld Haas’ appeal and gave Alonso a 30-second penalty – the longest penalty before disqualification – equal to the time he would have lost if he had pitted during the race. As a result, the Spaniard fell back from his 7th place, which he miraculously achieved after colliding with Stroll, to 15th place in the final standings.

But that was not the end of the matter. Alpine appealed, claiming that Alonso was not notified by the race center to enter the pits to repair the damage and that Haas appealed 24 minutes after the deadline. Haas countered that the FIA ​​had told her she had one hour to formally lodge the appeal.

Faced with new evidence that surfaced yesterday (10/27), the FIA ​​decided to accept Alpine’s appeal, saying Haas has the right to file a handwritten appeal within the time limit, followed by the official appeal.

Consequently, the federation has decided that Haas’ original appeal cannot be accepted after all, it is annulled and Fernando Alonso regains the 7th place he won at the Austin race.

However, the stewards concluded their decision with concerns that Alonso was allowed to fall by the wayside with his car’s mirror hanging down and he soon got away – thankfully without hitting anyone with the force of his car following him.

Therefore, the stewards proposed from now on to pay special attention to the procedures for detecting such problems and to notify the teams by radio about the appearance of the black and orange flag on one of their drivers.

Alonso had said on this subject before the meeting and decision of the sports stewards:Basically, we appealed because [η ένσταση της Haas] was overdue. There were two or three reasons for this FIA he didn’t show me the black and orange flag. So they thought the car was safe enough for me to continue. The car drove into Parkferme, passed the general inspection, got the green light, and then the protests came too late.

I think it’s clear that this wasn’t the right decision. If it were, it would open up a huge problem for them Formula 1. I think 50, 60, 70% of cars have to be scrapped if they don’t have an aerodynamic component in the right condition. And then if you’re 20 minutes late with the appeal, is that okay? If you’re a month late? or ten years? When is it too late?”closed.