McLaren has decided to proceed with its appeal against the stewards’ decision to dock the team of points from the Hungarian grand prix.
The news was confirmed both by the Woking based team and F1’s governing body, the FIA, on Wednesday.
Late on the night of Hungaroring qualifying last Saturday, race stewards, led by permanent member Tony Scott Andrews, ruled that the Mercedes-powered outfit should be penalised for its part in Fernando Alonso’s now-infamous pit stop delay of his own teammate Lewis Hamilton.
The 15 potential points accrued on Sunday by Alonso and Hamilton were then listed as provisional, and a representative of the team was not invited onto the podium to receive a constructors’ trophy.
Despite reports on Sunday that McLaren was considering not proceeding with its right to appeal, a spokeswoman for the team on Wednesday confirmed that the British motor sport authority had indeed lodged the request on the team’s behalf.
And “The International Court of Appeal has received confirmation of McLaren’s appeal from the national sporting authority in the UK,” a spokesman for the FIA said.
It means that the Hungarian controversy is the second current case involving McLaren set to be heard by the FIA Court, alongside the espionage appeal in mid September.
The team, meanwhile, was not able to appeal Alonso’s separate penalty that moved him back from pole position to sixth on the grid.
