Daniel Ricciardo’s Appeal Date for Australian GP Disqualification Makes No Sense

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Published: March 24, 2014

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The FIA announced on Friday that Red Bull’s appeal against Daniel Ricciardo’s disqualification from the Australian Grand Prix will be heard on April 14.

Ricciardo was excluded from the Australian Grand Prix for exceeding the maximum fuel-flow rate, according to the FIA sensors that are there to make sure that teams must not exceed a maximum rate of 100 kg/h.

If the decision to disqualify Ricciardo was met with puzzlement by many F1 fans, the appeal date appears equally bewildering as it comes on the Monday before the Chinese Grand Prix.



By that time, Red Bull will already have competed in two more grands prix, and it means that Christian Horner faces a tricky decision whether or not to stick to his guns and use their own fuel readings or bow to FIA pressure and use its sensor data.

It’s almost as if by setting the date before the Chinese Grand Prix, the FIA is testing Red Bull’s resolve by saying, “go on then, we dare you...”

Horner and Red Bull’s argument is that the fuel sensors that the FIA is using have been problematic from the start and that the one fitted to the car during Sunday’s race had an error.

The FIA had informed the team during the race that their flow rate was too high and to adjust it, but team boss Christian Horner decided to ignore the directive because he believed the FIA's sensor was producing the wrong data and that their own readings were correct.

Horner is quoted on Autosport.com: 

These fuel-flow sensors provided by the FIA to measure fuel have proved problematic down the pitlane since their introduction in testing. There have been discrepancies and they have been unreliable - indeed some cars may well have run without them in the race itself or failed in the race itself.

We had a fuel-flow sensor that was fitted to the car that we believed had an error. Based on ...
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