FIA: not our jurisdiction

By Andrew Cutler
April 6 2007

In their response to the protest that Spyker lodged yesterday against the STR2, the FIA has told the Silverstone-based team that, as they had already started legal arbitration over issue, it was now effectively out of their hands.

"Spyker has made an application for arbitration and must, by definition, therefore be deemed to accept that a dispute such as this does not fall within the range of disputes to be settled under the FIA 2007 Formula One Sporting Code," the FIA said in a statement issued on behalf of the stewards, "It is considered therefore that it would be entirely inappropriate for the stewards to involve themselves in a matter being dealt with at the instigation and election of the protestor, Spyker, in an entirely different forum. It follows, that this protest is inadmissible and the protest fee is accordingly returned."