The stewards confirmed the receipt of the protest and conducted a hearing. During the investigation, it was discovered that a significant number of laps had been deleted due to track limits violations, and penalties had not been applied for all of them. Race Control had dealt with over 100 deleted laps during the race.
After reviewing the evidence and reconciling the deleted laps with penalties, the stewards upheld Aston Martin’s protest. They determined that some track limit infringements had not been previously referred to them for potential penalties. As a result, new penalties were applied, which affected the final classification of the race.
