Mercedes wanted reigning world champions Red Bull to serve a three-race ban for appealing against its Melbourne disqualification.<\/p>\n
Earlier rumours in the Shanghai paddock had hinted at Mercedes’ push for a ban, after Dr Helmut Marko said he was surprised by the “aggressiveness” with which Mercedes argued at the Paris appeal on Monday.<\/p>\n
Although McLaren, Lotus, Williams and Force India also attended the appeal hearing, none of them “submitted any written observations, and none took any active part in the hearing”.<\/p>\n
The information emerged officially late on Friday, as F1’s governing body revealed the full text of its decision to reject Red Bull’s appeal.<\/p>\n
Mercedes, on the other hand, did indeed play an active and forceful role in Paris, the carmaker’s lawyer saying Red Bull actually deserves “a more severe sanction”.<\/p>\n
It was believed Mercedes only wanted a suspended further penalty for Red Bull, but in fact it argued in writing that the court should ban the reigning world champions for “no less than three races”.<\/p>\n
On top of the race ban, Mercedes called for “a disqualification for a further six months, suspended for a year”.<\/p>\n
Bild newspaper said Mercedes’ tough stance might be viewed in the context of 2013, when Red Bull attacked the Brackley team when the ‘secret’ Pirelli tyre test was revealed.<\/p>\n
“Was this the Silver Arrows’ revenge?” wondered correspondents Nicola Pohl and Lennart Wermke.<\/p>\n
Mercedes chairman Niki Lauda on Saturday tried to ease any bad feeling between the two camps by delivering a chocolate cake to the Red Bull hospitality area.<\/p>\n
“I personally brought them an Austrian Sachertorte,” he told German television RTL.\u00a0 “It was just a nice gesture.”<\/p>\n
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