The Court of Appeal of the Hungarian Federation has confirmed Kevin Ceccon’s win in the Saturday race of the Budapest Auto GP event, even if the verdict on the appeal filed by Ombra Racing against the Stewarts’ decision was negative. The Court considered that the reasons that led the Stewards to issue the penalty were right, bud decided to amend the decision bringing the time penalty from 60 seconds to 25 seconds, the equivalent of a “stop and go” penalty issued after the race. Following this decision, the classification of Race 1 is modified as follows: 1   Kevin CECCON   Ombra Racing  21 laps in 35’17”721 2  Adrien TAMBAY   Gravity - Charouz Dams  +24.547 3  Giovanni VENTURINI  Griffitz Durango   +28.185 4   Fabio ONIDI    Lazarus    +29.288 5   Sergei AFANASIEV   Dams     +30.084 6   Rodolfo GONZALEZ   Campos Racing   +38.140 7   Fabrizio CRESTANI   Lazarus    +38.634 8  Pasquale DI SABATINO  TP Formula    +43.779 9  Bruno MENDEZ   Campos Racing   +44.898 10   Rio HARYANTO   Dams     +45.894 11  Luca FILIPPI   Supernova Racing   +50.708 12  Francesco DRACONE  Emmebi Motorsport  +1.11.600 13   Samuele BUTTARELLI  TP Formula    +1 LAP 14   Stefano BIZZARRI   Ombra Racing   +1 LAP 15  Giuseppe CIPRIANI   Griffitz Durango   +3 LAPS 16  Marco BARBA   Campos Racing   D.N.F.

 Below is the decision wording: The National Court of Appeal amends the decision n°1 made by the Stewards of the Auto GP event on 4th June, 2011 and confirming the facts stated by the Stewards decides to amend the time penalty from 60 seconds to 25 seconds.Pursuant to this decision the position of driver n°5, Kevin Ceccon (competitor: Ombra Racing S.r.l.) in Race 1 is to be determined by adding 25 seconds to the time achieved by the driver actually during the race. The National Court of Appeal made its decision on the basis of Art. XIII, Point 189 of the International Sporting Code, considering also the 2011 Sporting Regulations of Auto GP, Points 47-51 (Accidents).REASONSBased on the available documents the National Court of Appeal came to the conclusion that the above named driver violated the rules foreseen in Point 145 of the 2011 Sporting Regulations of Auto GP for the case of the deployment of the Safety-Car. Accordingly the Stewards of the event were right to judge the case as a violation of the rules by the driver. This fact was not influenced by the circumstances which were referred into the appeal.As a penalty for the violation of the rules the Stewards of the event imposed a time penalty of 60 seconds. In the 2011 Sporting Regulations of Auto GP – in points 47-51 – the applicable penalties are exactly specified. According to the penalties listed there, it is not possible to impose a time penalty of 60 seconds. Due to this fact the National Court of Appeal applied the “stop and go” penalty with the stipulation that, as this penalty was not applicable during the race, according to point 49b a time penalty of 25 seconds was imposed.