{"id":18574,"date":"2013-06-21T20:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T00:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18574"},"modified":"2013-06-21T20:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T00:22:34","slug":"mercedes-not-appealing-test-gate-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-not-appealing-test-gate-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes not appealing test-gate penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes on Friday said it will not appeal the international tribunal&#8217;s verdict, therefore closing the &#8216;test-gate&#8217; scandal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-18575\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"mercedes-pirelli-tyre-saga\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mercedes-pirelli-tyre-saga.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mercedes-pirelli-tyre-saga.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mercedes-pirelli-tyre-saga-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mercedes-pirelli-tyre-saga-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mercedes-pirelli-tyre-saga-426x320.jpg 426w, https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mercedes-pirelli-tyre-saga-133x100.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/>The tribunal&#8217;s judges revealed earlier that the Brackley based team has been reprimanded, banned from the forthcoming young drivers&#8217; test at Silverstone, and ordered to pay a share of the legal costs.<\/p>\n<p>It had the right to appeal within 7 days.<\/p>\n<p>But in a media statement, Mercedes described the penalties as &#8220;proportionate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(The tribunal) confirmed that the team acted in good faith regarding the Pirelli tests, never intended to obtain any unfair sporting advantage and had no reason to believe that approval &#8230; had not been given,&#8221; it read.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes said it will not appeal &#8220;in the best interests of the sport&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes on Friday said it will not appeal the international tribunal&#8217;s verdict, therefore closing the &#8216;test-gate&#8217; scandal. The tribunal&#8217;s judges revealed earlier that the Brackley based team has been reprimanded, banned from the forthcoming young drivers&#8217; test at Silverstone, and ordered to pay a share of the legal costs. It had the right to appeal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[4519,5262,1790,5300,5340,34,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18577,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions\/18577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}