Max Verstappen dominated the Red Bull Ring race to win over Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and team-mate Sergio Perez, but the provisional result was soon plunged into doubt.
Aston Martin launched a protest in relation to incidents of breaches of track limits – predominately at Turns 9 and 10 – not being correctly identified and penalised.
The FIA then revealed that it had been unable to review in excess of 1200 reports of violations of drivers having strayed over the painted white lines with all four wheels during the 71-lap race.
The stewards, meanwhile, were presented with a list of deleted lap times from race control that showed cases of infringements that were not previously brought to their attention.
These have now been reviewed and a further 12 penalties awarded on the following basis:
Three infringements should have resulted in a black-and-white warning flag.
Four infringements earn a five-second penalty.
Five infringements earn a 10-second penalty.
Thereafter, a “reset” has been allowed due to the “excessive number of infringements” meaning four fouls earn …