Red Bull have formally confirmed their intention to appeal against
Daniel Ricciardo's disqualification from Sunday's Australian Grand
Prix.
Ricciardo had initially thrilled his home crowd at Melbourne's
Albert Park in finishing runner-up to Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, only for
the stewards to later exclude him from the race classification due to a
technical fuel infringement with his Red Bull, as cited in The Guardian.
After immediately serving notice of their intention to appeal, the
team were then given 96 hours to process their application, doing so
just ahead of Thursday's deadline via the Austrian motor sport
federation. A hearing will now go before the FIA's court of appeal at a
date yet to be determined.
The latest set of regulations, to accommodate the introduction of the
new 1.6-litre V6 turbo-charged power units and various accompanying
energy-saving devices, have swiftly resulted in the first challenge.
Among them is the cars now start with a maximum 100 kilograms of fuel,
as opposed to 140-150kg in previous seasons, and operate with a
fuel-flow rate of no more than 100kg per hour.
Ricciardo's car, however, was found to consistently exceed that rate
during the race. In layman's terms, the fuel-flow rate is monitored by
an FIA meter, manufactured by Gill Sensors, who are based in Lymington,
Hampshire.
Following Ricciardo's disqualification, on his debut for Red Bull
after being promoted from Toro Rosso as replacement for Mark Webber, the
team principal, Christian Horner, claimed the sensors were
"unreliable".
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