FE: Dragon team loses FIA court appeal

Dragon Racing has lost the appeal it hoped would secure it third place in the 2015/16 Formula E teams' championship.

The American team appealed two penalties applied to DS Virgin Racing driver Jean-Eric Vergne in the London finale. The FIA International Court of Appeal heard the case on September 16, and declared the appeals inadmissible.

DS Virgin beat Dragon to third by just one point after the series' Battersea Park finale, thanks to the eighth-place finish earned by Jean-Eric Vergne despite two penalties.

Vergne picked up a 50-second penalty for using too much energy that initially dropped him to seventh in the results, and then had one more second added to his race time for an unsafe release during the car swaps.

He was given a one-second penalty because it dropped him behind Nick Heidfeld, who the Frenchman had jumped during the stop that featured the unsafe release.

Dragon had appealed on the grounds it believed Vergne should have been given a bigger time penalty for the unsafe release.

Originally on Autosport.com