Daniel Ricciardo won't be reinstated as the runner-up in the Australian GP following FIA's ruling. Source: Getty Images
Daniel Ricciardo's disqualification from the Australian Grand Prix will stand after his Formula One team Red Bull lost their appeal.
Rising Australian driver Ricciardo crossed the line second at his home grand prix in March only to be stripped of his place after the team was found guilty of breaching fuel flow regulations.
Red Bull pleaded their case against the ruling in a six-hour hearing in Paris on Monday but ruling motorsport body FIA stood firm, announcing on Tuesday it had decided to uphold the decision.
The ruling means Ricciardo misses out on 18 points for finishing second in the Melbourne season opener, leaving him in 10th place in the championship with 12 points - 49 behind Mercedes' pacesetter Nico Rosberg.
It also robs the 24-year-old Ricciardo of the honour of officially being the first Australian to finish top three at a home grand prix since the event joined the F1 world championship in 1985.
However Ricciardo said prior to the appeal, the disqualification would never detract from the sensation of standing on the podium in front of his own fans.
Daniel Ricciardo (L) on the podium at Albert Park next to Nico Rosberg and Kevin Magnussen. Source: AFP
"I did a good job in the car and I got to stand on the Australian Grand Prix podium, and no one's taking away the sensation of doing that," Ricciardo told the Red Bull website. Australian Grand Prix Corporation chairman Ron Walker said the result of the appeal was disappointing.
"But we must look forward and the future is bright," he said in a statement.
"It's incredibly exciting that Australia has such formidable talent to represent us for many years to come ... the hearts of all sports fans around the world go out to Daniel at this time.
"We must support him and remind him how proud we are of what he has achieved." Ricciardo did not attend the hearing in Paris as he focused on preparations for Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.
At the appeal, Red Bull came under fire from rivals Mercedes, who claimed the team deliberately flouted the rules.
The case represented the first major challenge to this season's sweeping rule changes, in which F1 ditched 2.4 litre V8 engines for smaller 1.6 litre V6 turbo hybrid engines.
Red Bull's team principal Christian Horner and technical director Adrian Newey at the hearing. Source: AP
The rules are forcing teams to be more fuel efficient, restricting the rate at which fuel is burned to no more than 100kgs per hour at any time.
Red Bull was accused of consistently overstepping that mark with Ricciardo's car in Melbourne but argued the FIA-approved sensor used to measure the delivery of fuel to Ricciardo's car was faulty and so the team relied instead on its own fuel-flow measurements. Mercedes lawyer Paul Harris argued that Red Bull was in "flagrant breach" of F1 rules.
"We are frankly, and with great respect, concerned that Red Bull have shown such a flagrant and deliberate disregard for these rules," Harris said.
Ricciardo's first season for Red Bull has already been a turbulent one.
His Melbourne disqualification was followed by a retirement in Malaysia where he also copped a 10-place grid penalty for the third round in Bahrain.
At the Middle East track, he qualified third, started in 13th spot due to his Malaysia rap before storming to a fourth-place finish, just missing out on a podium place.
TEAM STATEMENT
Infiniti Red Bull Racing accepts the ruling of the International Court of Appeal today. We are of course disappointed by the outcome and would not have appealed if we didn't think we had a very strong case. We always believed we adhered to the technical regulations throughout the 2014 Australian Grand Prix. We are sorry for Daniel (Ricciardo) that he will not be awarded the 18 points from the event, which we think he deserved. We will continue to work very hard to amass as many points as possible for the team, Daniel and Sebastian (Vettel) throughout the season.
We will now move on from this and concentrate on this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.
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