Sao Paulo GP stewards have dismissed Mercedes’ request to have the decision not to investigate Max Verstappen’s defence against Lewis Hamilton last Sunday reviewed.

A hearing featuring both teams took place on the opening day of the Qatar GP weekend and deliberations stretched into Friday, but stewards ruled that, while video footage released from on-board Max Verstappen’s car on Tuesday was duly a ‘new’ and ‘relevant’ element in the case it did not satisfy the third criteria of also being ‘significant’.

“The stewards determine that the footage shows nothing exceptional that is particularly different from the other angles that were available to them at the time,” read the verdict.