Mercedes has written to motorsport’s governing physique, the FIA, to request a evaluate of the incident between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton on lap 48 of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, which was not investigated by the stewards on the time.

Verstappen and Hamilton ended up off the monitor whereas preventing for the lead of the race in Flip 4 on lap 48, with the Purple Bull driver working vast and leaving Hamilton no choice however to bail out of the nook and into the run-off space.

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The incident was famous by race management however based mostly on the proof accessible on the time the stewards determined to not examine.

Hamilton handed Verstappen on the similar nook a number of laps later to safe the grand prix victory.

On Tuesday, onboard footage from the forward-facing digital camera of Verstappen’s automotive was made public and reveals the angle of steering of the Purple Bull relative to the angle of the nook and Hamilton’s positioning on monitor.

On the time of the incident, the video transmission from Verstappen’s automotive was broadcasting the rear-facing digital camera, that means the proof from the front-racing digital camera was not accessible to the stewards.

When the onboard footage was printed, Mercedes issued the next assertion saying its request to have the incident reviewed by the FIA.

“The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Staff confirms that we now have right now requested a Proper of Evaluate beneath Article 14.1.1 of the Worldwide Sporting Code, in relation to the Flip 4 incident between Automobile 44 [Hamilton] and Automobile 33 [Verstappen] on lap 48 of the 2021 Brazilian Grand Prix, on the idea of recent proof unavailable to the stewards on the time of their resolution.”

After the race, Mercedes group principal Toto Wolff stated Verstappen ought to have been given a five-second penalty for crowding Hamilton off the monitor and accused the stewards of “brushing it beneath the carpet,” which he stated was “laughable” on a weekend when Hamilton had additionally been disqualified from qualifying.

Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate, Valtteri Bottas, completed the race 3.1s behind Verstappen, so if a five-second penalty had been to be retrospectively added to the outcomes, Verstappen would drop from second place to 3rd.

Nevertheless, talking in a post-race information convention earlier than he had been given the chance to look at any footage of the incident, Hamilton stated the close to collision was nothing greater than “exhausting battling” and a “racing incident.”