Alonso received a 10-second penalty in China’s sprint race after making glancing contact with Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz, which Alonso couldn’t serve as he retired with a puncture.
Alonso, who also received three penalty points, said he didn’t understand why he was penalised for what he felt was a racing incident.
Last week, Aston decided to ask for a right of review, which involves bringing significant, relevant and new evidence to the table to be judged by the stewards on Friday morning in Miami.
In the hearing, which was attended by both Aston Martin and Ferrari, the stewards disagreed that Aston’s evidence cleared that three-pronged set of criteria, and therefore the matter won’t be re-opened further.
Aston provided forward-facing camera footage of the incident from Alonso’s car, which was unavailable to the stewards when they made a snap decision during the sprint.
But while the stewards accepted the new footage was clearly new evidence and relevant to the incident, they felt it wasn’t significant as they had enough alternative footage available at the time to make a decision, and the new camera angles wouldn’t have changed their decision making.
“The alleged new element presented was a forward-facing video footage of car 14 which was unavailable to Aston Martin and the stewards at the time of the original decision – it was downloaded post the sprint session by F1,” the stewards said.
Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR24, Carlos Sainz, Ferrari SF-24, Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing RB20
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