Red Bull to present 'new facts' in Thursday penalty protest
Jul.29 - Dr Helmut Marko is confident Red Bull will be able to put Max Verstappen's Silverstone crash "in a different light" during an FIA hearing on Thursday.
The championship leaders are challenging Lewis Hamilton's in-race, 10-second penalty for the clash that still enabled him to win the British GP.
Top official Dr Marko says the Austrian camp has "new evidence" ready that will "put the accident in a different light" when the video hearing takes place in Hungary.
"We are bringing new facts that were not available to us at the time the race was suspended," the 78-year-old told RTL.
"This evidence is being brought forward and we hope that a reassessment will take place, because we still believe that the penalty was too mild for Hamilton."
Marko says a just penalty would have "prevented" Hamilton from winning.
"A drive-through or a ban at the next race," he said.
The Austrian also told f1-insider.com: "Everything is possible. Hamilton's penalty could be tightened or he may even be completely acquitted.
"Our only concern is that the new findings are taken into account and that Max sees clearly that we are fully behind him," Marko said.
Respected F1 correspondent Fulvio Solms, however, is not confident Red Bull will be successful.
"In our opinion, the chance is almost zero," he told Italy's Corriere dello Sport.
"Red Bull has already said what is up for debate. So the new evidence will be looked at from three points. Is it new? If so, is it significant? And if so, is it relevant?
"We have to note that the stewards at Silverstone used an enormous amount of information to make their decision - external video, on-board cameras, telemetry and GPS data," Solms said.
"It's hard to imagine they overlooked something so significant and relevant to the case. But we'll see."
✅ Check out more posts with related topics:
Red Bull, would you like some cheese with that whine?
New evidence: VER says, "He hit me." The complainant rests.
How about just revising the red flag reg's? Simple, ANY personnel contact with the car during red flag period results in immediate disqualification.
or at least a two-lap penalty, which I believe NASCAR imposes for red flag contact with the car.
Max and Ricciardo are right. Hamilton went in too hot . He got alongside before the corner but then had to brake otherwise he would have pushed Max off the track. He then dropped behind but made the mistake of not ensuring his front wheel was still in there to hit Max's rear wheel.
He then got lucky again with the red flag witj Mercedes able to fix his left front wheel.
It is concerning that Hamilton says he would do thr same move again.
It was disrespectful of Hamilton and Mercedes to celebrate the way they did in the circumstances, particularly where Hamilton says he didn't know what was happening with Max. That is preciseley why he shouldn't have celebrated the way he did. He knew it was a very hard hit into the barrier and wasn't concerned with how Max was. Shows a lack of concern for a fellow driver where he was responsible for putting him in the barrier and lack of respect. The stewards penalty tells you who was at fault.
As I've said elsewhere, if roles were reversed and Max had put Lewis off like that at Copse, Max would be sitting out this weekend.
Alonso and LeClerc were right, racing incident. Max needs to stop weaving as well, it just creates situations.