It protested the stewards’ determination to restart the red-flagged race after the unique end time and due to this fact the provisional outcomes instantly after the race.
The protest was thrown out, however Ferrari has now exercised its proper of attraction, Ferrari sportscar racing boss Antonello Coletta has confirmed.
There was no official assertion from the FIA or the Car Membership de l’Ouest, which collectively govern the WEC, regarding the attraction and Coletta insisted that it wasn’t the time to enter particulars.
“Sure we filed a grievance and we’ve got filed an attraction,” he mentioned on Wednesday forward of the beginning of observe for the Le Mans 24 Hours WEC spherical.
“At this second we desire to not focus on any particulars and to be honest we don’t have a date for the listening to [at the International Court of Appeal].”
However Coletta went on to demand clarification of the principles.
He pointed to earlier WEC races, together with the 2013 Fuji and 2022 Sebring fixtures, weren’t restarted past the scheduled end time after pink flags attributable to the climate.
Extending the timeframe by which the Spa race happened was uncommon if not unprecedented within the historical past of the WEC since its rebirth in 2012, however was allowed below the collection sporting rules.
They state: “If the circumstances so require the stewards could take the choice to cease and/or modify the race time set. This may occasionally not exceed the time of the competitors [meaning six hours].”
“We must be clear on the interpretation for the long run,” mentioned Coletta.
“An important factor is that we’d like readability when it comes to the principles.
“It is very important know precisely what is going to occur to make the proper selections.
He described the choice to restart the race 10 minutes after the unique 7pm native time scheduled end as “astonishing and utterly sudden”.
#51 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi
Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Photos
The 2 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercars have been operating 1-2 when the race was red-flagged after Earl Bamber’s Ganassi-run Cadillac V-Collection.R LMDh triggered a crash additionally involving the #31 WRT BMW M4 GT3 pushed by Sean Gelael on the Kemmel Straight.
The accident occurred 4 hours and 13 minutes into the race however the repairs to the limitations weren’t completed in time to permit a restart earlier than the scheduled 7pm end.
A choice was taken by the stewards to renew the race at 7:10pm for a interval of 1 hour and 44 minutes, the remaining time left on the clock minus the three minutes from the pink flag being proven to the vehicles forming up on the grid in parc ferme situations.
Ferrari ended up ending third and fourth with its #50 and #51 manufacturing facility entries after the profitable #12 Jota Porsche 963 LMDh and the second-placed #6 manufacturing facility Porsche Penske Motorsport gained time because of the pink flag as a result of they’d pitted simply earlier than the stoppage.
An explainer despatched out by the FIA within the wake of the race acknowledged that the choice to finish the complete period fo the Spa 6 Hours “ensured sporting equity for the rivals, who set their methods for a six-hour race”.
“Chopping the race session brief would imply that some rivals would achieve, and others would lose consequently,” it continued.
