George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli have avoided penalties after Mercedes were accused of failing to supply set-up information when required to.
Russell qualified fourth for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, while Antonelli took 17th on the grid.
The team was investigated for failing to provide the set-up sheets for both its cars in time as required by the rules. “At 20:12 the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team still had not submitted the set-up sheets for both of their cars,” noted FIA Formula 1 technical delegate Jo Bauer.
The sporting regulations state: “Each competitor must provide the technical delegate with a suspension set-up sheet for both of their cars before each of them leaves the pit lane for the first time during the sprint [race] qualifying session and the qualifying session.”
However at a hearing Mercedes was able to prove it had supplied the required paperwork in time.
“Although the FIA did not receive the set-up sheet electronically in the specified time, the team was able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the stewards, with copies of the relevant emails, that the sheet had been emailed to the appropriate FIA department but due to some IT security issue it was not received in the specified time,” the stewards ruled.
The stewards therefore ruled no action should be taken against the team.
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