The Alfa Romeo Method One workforce failed on Sunday to overturn a penalty that value Kimi Raikkonen factors ultimately month’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Stewards had accepted a workforce request for a evaluation on the Portuguese Grand Prix based mostly on the emergence of latest components, however later issued an announcement upholding the unique sanction.

“We tried however now they are saying no, so we acknowledge and go on,” Alfa’s head of monitor engineering Xevi Pujolar instructed reporters in a video name.

Raikkonen was handed a 30-second penalty at Italy’s Imola circuit after the race was halted by a crash between Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas and Williams’ George Russell after which given a rolling re-start.

Stewards had dominated the Finn ought to have gone to the pit lane after a spin when the security automobile was main the sector earlier than the re-start, slightly than remaining on monitor.

Alfa Romeo stated that they had requested for steering, because the state of affairs was unclear, however the reply got here again too late for them to behave on it.

Stewards recognised there was no Method One precedent for the state of affairs Raikkonen discovered himself in, and {that a} 2018 rule change launched a ‘battle of intent’ between the principles for a rolling re-start and that behind the security automobile.

They added, nevertheless, that the penalty triggered by the breach was a compulsory one and stewards had no discretion to alter it.

The penalty demoted Raikkonen from ninth to thirteenth and promoted Alpine’s Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso to ninth and tenth respectively.