Hearing ... Mercedes chief Ross Brawn prepares for the FIA findings. Source: Michel Euler / AFP
Mercedes have suspended from next month's young driver test and both the team and Pirelli reprimanded for their respective parts in 'Testgate', the International Tribunal has announced.
After a morning of waiting following Thursday's mammoth, and at times heated, seven-hour hearing into the controversial Barcelona tyre test at the FIA's Paris headquarters, Formula 1's governing body announced that both parties had been punished for taking part in the 1000km Barcelona test.
However, given fears had been that Mercedes might face a more hefty punishment should they have been adjudged to have contravened Article 22 of F1's Sporting Regulations regarding in-season testing their subsequent reprimand and ban from the three-day Silverstone test is relatively minor - with the team's lawyer himself himself having suggested the latter sanction to the court in the event the ruling went against his client.
The FIA themselves added following the verdict that it intended to consolidate the control of F1 tests.
"The FIA wishes that lessons are learnt from this case and from the decision handed down. To this end, the FIA will make sure, in association with all F1 teams, that its control of the testings is strengthened," it said in a statement.
In Thursday's hearing the FIA's counsel, Mark Howard, had argued vociferously that both Mercedes and Pirelli had contravened Formula 1's Sporting Regulations in regards to in-season testing by conducting the post-Spanish GP test with a Mercedes' 2013 car and may have also breached Article 151c of the International Sporting Code by engaging in "any act prejudicial to the interests of any competition".
Mercedes, who had protested their innocence in the matter since news of the test first broke of the morning of the Monaco GP last month, reiterated during the course of their submissions to the Tribunal that the Barcelona test was "conducted by Pirelli" and therefore the team themselves hadn't contravened Article 22.1 of the Sporting Regulations which bans full in-season testing with a current car.
The Brackley team's lawyer, Paul Harris QC, also cited an email exchange between FIA Race Director Charlie Whiting and the governing body's legal advisor Sebastian Barnard which they claimed had given them the green light to put forward their W04 for testing with race drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
However, the FIA had already insisted during its prosecution that only the World Motor Sport Council have the authority to allow such a change in the regulations and the views Whiting expressed were only an "opinion" rather than formal permission.
Pirelli's lawyer, meanwhile, had argued that given the tyre firm were an F1 supplier, as opposed to a competitor, the FIA had no power to sanction them under its statues and in any case its separate commercial agreement with the governing body didn't specify what kind of car they could run in their permitted tests.
The International Tribunal verdict in full
'On 5 June 2013, further to protests lodged during the 2013 Monaco GP by Red Bull Racing and Ferrari Scuderia Team against cars n°9 and 10 (Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team) for having conducted with Pirelli a three day tyre testing using a 2013 car on 15, 16 and 17 May in Barcelona, the President of the FIA, acting as the FIA Prosecuting Body, sent to the President of the International Tribunal a notification of charges against Pirelli and a notification of charges against Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team.
'On 5 June 2013, Pirelli and Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team have been convened by the President of the International Tribunal to appear before a judging panel of the International Tribunal.
'Decision of the International Tribunal
'The Tribunal, after having heard the parties and examined their submissions, decided that:
'Mercedes be reprimanded;
Mercedes be suspended from participating in the forthcoming "three day young driver training test";
Pirelli be reprimanded. and rejected all other and further conclusions.
'The International Tribunal was presided over by Mr Edwin Glasgow QC and included Mr Christy Harris (US), Mr Patrick Raedersdorf (Switzerland) and Mr Anthony Scott-Andrews (Great Britain).'
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