It’s been a talking point for nearly two weeks now, but the stewards have spoken – for the final time – and they have decided to deny Ferrari’s request for a right of review of the decision to hand Sebastian Vettel a penalty that cost him victory in Canada…

Vettel was first to see the chequered flag in Montreal, but the five-second time penalty given to him by the stewards for rejoining the track in unsafe fashion and forcing Lewis Hamilton off track demoted him to second behind the Mercedes driver in the final classification.

After deciding not to appeal against the decision, Ferrari then moved to request a right of review, via the FIA’s International Sporting Code, which allows competitors to present new evidence not available before the end of the event.

Sporting director Laurent Mekies presented their evidence, which he described ahead of the meeting as “overwhelming”, to the same stewards at Paul Ricard in France on Friday afternoon.

After several hours of deliberation, the stewards issued a statement saying “there are no significant and relevant new elements which were unavailable to the parties at the time of the competition concerned”.

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