Da Costa claimed his first win of the season on System E’s inaugural go to to the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli final weekend.
The Portuguese driver scored his first victory for the reason that Cape City E-Prix final season having handed Nissan’s Oliver Rowland three laps from the tip of a chaotic race which included 19 adjustments for the lead throughout 28 laps.
However a number of hours after the race, da Costa was stripped of his victory after scrutineers discovered an ineligible throttle damper setting associated to the spring was fitted to his automobile.
The half in query had been beforehand used on the Gen2 machines however its inclusion within the “GEN3 Spark Catalogue” was eliminated when the brand new automobile was launched for the 2022-23 season.
Porsche admitted that the spring had been used for the reason that begin of the Gen3 period as solely the addition of recent components had been highlighted within the catalogue, not if they’d been eliminated.
Instantly following the disqualification, Porsche lodged an intent to attraction giving the German producer 96 hours to determined whether or not to pursue the matter.
On Wednesday simply earlier than the deadline, a press release learn: “We are able to verify that Porsche lodged an attraction towards the choice #31 by the Stewards regarding the 2024 FIA System E Misano E-Prix, 13 April 2024.”
Antonio Felix da Costa, Porsche, Porsche 99X Electrical Gen3
Picture by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Pictures
Previous to his win on the street, Da Costa had suffered a troublesome begin to the 2024 season, failing to attain factors within the opening three races earlier than ending within the factors in Sao Paulo and Tokyo.
His place within the Porsche workforce got here below scrutiny after it was revealed that Abt’s Nico Muller had examined with the German producer earlier this month as a attainable alternative to da Costa subsequent season.
Within the wake of his disqualification, and previous to the second Misano E-Prix the place he was labeled seventeenth after pitting for a brand new entrance wing after it was broken, da Costa claimed the “profitable feeling” remained.
“It’s what it’s, it’s a large blow in our championship as a result of these 25 factors had been going to positively going to place us again in rivalry and now makes our life slightly bit more durable,” he advised TNT Sports activities.
“However we go race by race and the optimistic factor is we’ve performed it on monitor and everybody noticed it.
“The profitable feeling and accomplishment feeling just isn’t going away.”
