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...the FIA amended the "Article 14 Right of Review" (RoR) process for 2024:
⏱️ NEW 96-hour submission deadline vs 14 days
💶 NEW €2000 deposit vs free
Campos Racing submitted a RoR against Hadjar's F2 sprint race penalty. The RoR was submitted within the new 96-hour deadline but without the deposit.
Key learnings for Competitors:
💶 Remember to pay the new deposit
🆙 The threshold for a successful RoR remains a "very high bar"
👨🏻⚖ The Stewards will consider each case individually and will NOT review precedent incidents / decisions as evidence (despite contradictory examples, eg Saudi Arabia 2023) so knowledge of the Regulations is more important than precedent
Please let me know if you want to discuss the RoR process including training or creating materials to assist submissions.
So what did the Stewards decide?
The Stewards allowed late payment because the rule is new but Competitors will need to be aware in future.
Submitted evidence:
🏎️ Steering angle data
📺Screenshots from the TV host feed
📽️ Video footage from a similar incident in 2022
As a reminder of the RoR process, to proceed to a new Stewards' hearing on the facts, all or part of the evidence presented needs to be:
NEW (to the party seeking the review, ie Campos)
and
RELEVANT
and
SIGNIFICANT
Taking each in turn:
🏎️ Steering angle data
✅New - because a data transfer failure meant this wasn't available to Campos until after the race
❌ Relevant - would not have changed original decision
❌ Significant - would not have changed original decision
📺 Screenshots from the TV host feed
❌New - video evidence was already available
❌ Relevant - the screenshots didn't show the crash
❌ Significant - would not have changed original decision
📽️ Video footage from a similar incident in 2022
❌ Refused to review - the Stewards stated that they are never bound by precedent and so will not consider any preceding decisions of other Stewards' panels (note this is contradictory to previous RoR hearings)
The RoR was therefore inadmissible. A good reminder of the "very high bar" and of the new process.