The appeal lodged by Audi following the Italian Grand Prix will be heard on 25 November.

At the end of the formation lap during the race restart following a red flag, the Race Director ordered an additional formation lap.

Following the race, the stewards investigated a potential breach of Article B5.9.4 of the 2026 FIA Formula 1 Sporting Regulations by Yuki Tsunoda, which requires any driver who caused an extra formation lap to start from the end of the pit lane.

Failure to do so would see a stop-and-go penalty imposed on the Racing Bulls driver.

However, the stewards decided to take no further action, stating that in order to comply with the requirement to enter and start from the pit lane, a driver would need to know that he was the cause of the extra formation lap.

A Racing Bulls representative quoted situations where extra formation laps had commenced due to extraneous circumstances such as the position of a photographer etc. In this case, no message was sent to the team or the driver, advising them that they were the cause of the extra formation lap.

Consequently, the team, based on the fact that the car was positioned within its starting grid box in compliance with the regulations, had, in the stewards determination, no reason to instruct Tsunoda to enter and start from the pit lane.

Accordingly, irrespective of whether or not the driver directly caused the extra formation lap, the team and driver were unaware that they were being considered as the cause, therefore the stewards determined that they were unable to impose a stop and go and decided to take no further action. They also noted that the Race Director acted in good faith and out of an abundance of caution in ordering an extra formation lap.

Three days later, Audi lodged an appeal against that decision, arguing that Tsunoda had caused the extra formation lap and should therefore have received the prescribed penalty

Tsunoda finished the race in tenth, while Audi's drivers, Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg, finished eleventh and twelfth.

The hearing will take place at the FIA's Paris HQ on Wednesday 25 November.