The Official Hungarian Grand Prix Thread

And if F1 opened itself up to exemptions or shifting financial accountability, it would almost certainly invite more legal angst.

Teams would be minded to appeal decisions or submit petitions to review because there would be much more at stake than just sporting penalties.

Crashes are part of racing. Sometimes teams will cause them, sometimes teams will be innocent victims. This “brutality of racing”, to quote Horner, has been around forever.

It’s just the big teams no longer have unlimited budgets that let them shrug such crashes off – so now they are in the same boat as everybody else.

The Silverstone-based team had hoped to get the FIA stewards to look once again at its case, after Vettel’s car was excluded from its second place finish in Budapest for failing to have a mandatory one-litre of fuel remaining for post-race checks.

Aston Martin initially believed that telemetry data from the car showed there to be 1.44 litres more fuel in the car than the 0.3-litres that the FIA initially was able to pump out.

It reckoned that a fuel system failure in the car had contributed to the circumstances and meant that the fuel had not been pumped into the tank where the FIA could access it. The team launched both a right to review request with the stewards, and also has formally appealed against the decision.

But at an FIA hearing on Monday, the FIA denied Aston Martin’s request to review the case because the latest indications from the team were that a mechanical problem potentially meant there was not one-litre of fuel left at all.