Red Bull’s protest into George Russell over yellow flags rejected by Miami stewards

Red Bull have had their protest of George Russell rejected by the Stewards following the Miami Grand Prix, resulting in the Mercedes driver keeping his podium finish ahead of fourth-placed Max Verstappen.

The Milton Keynes outfit submitted a protest earlier alleging that Russell had failed to slow under yellow flags, which if successful could have led to a penalty that would have promoted the Dutchman to P3 as he crossed the line 2.3s behind the Mercedes.

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When Ollie Bearman’s Haas suffered a likely engine failure and became stranded on track, Russell elected to pit for fresh tyres under the beneficial conditions brought about by the Virtual Safety Car, and he ultimately returned to the track ahead of Verstappen in third.

Later on, when Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto pulled off the road with power unit problems, another Virtual Safety Car was deployed with Verstappen – still behind Russell – asking his team to “check if George lifted, it was yellow”.