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FIA rejects Williams bid to overturn Baku stewards decisions

A bid by Williams to have the grid penalty handed out to Sergey Sirotkin following his first lap clash with Sergio Perez in Azerbaijan has been rejected by the FIA. A teleconference involving race director Charlie Whiting and the four Baku stewards - Garry Connelly, Tom Kristensen, Dennis Dean and Anar Shukurov - was presented with evidence by Williams legal counsel this morning and subsequently a ten-point explanation of their reasoning was issued. Other than the Sirotkin penalty, Williams had queried a number of decisions made by the stewards in Baku, including the failure to act when Fernando Alonso drove back to the pits with two punctures following his first lap clash. Deeming that...
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