Formulation One workforce Racing Level will probably be docked 15 championship factors after a complaint from rivals Renault that it had copied components from Mercedes’ world championship-winning 2019 automotive was upheld, the FIA stated Friday. Racing Level will lose 7.5 factors for every of its two automobiles collaborating within the 2020 season. It signifies that forward of Sunday’s 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone, Renault transfer as much as fifth place within the producers’ standings on 32 factors and Racing Level slip to sixth, on 27 factors.
Racing Point, owned by Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll and powered by Mercedes engines, has additionally been fined 200,000 euros ($236,000) per automotive.
Racing Level can attraction the choice.
No penalties have been imposed on the workforce’s common drivers, the Mexican Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll, the son of the workforce’s proprietor.
Perez has been ruled out of Sunday’s race after testing constructive once more for coronavirus, which means he misses a second consecutive race.
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He’ll changed by German driver Nico Hulkenberg, as he was for final week’s British Grand Prix.
Renault’s case centres on the design of Racing Level’s brake ducts, which it alleges are copies of these Mercedes used on its world championship-winning 2019 automotive.
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