Ferrari has confirmed it will not appeal the FIA’s decision not to penalise Austrian G🅰rand Prix victor Max Verstappen for his incident with Charles Leclerc.

Verstappen passed Leclerc at Turn 3 with three laps to go 🍃to snatch the lead of the race, but appeared to force the Ferrari driver off-track in the process, before going on to seal the win.

The stewards investigated the coming together but “did not consider that eit✨her driver was wholly or predominately to blame” and took no further action, concluding it was a “raci൲ng incident”.

Under Article 15 of the International Sporting Code, Ferrari is entitled to appeal the decision, as it did in its unsuccessful attempt to overturn Sebastian Vettel’s controversial penalty at the Canadia🌊n Grand Prix.

But in his post-race media briefing following the outcome, team principal Mꦆattia Binotto confirmed it would not do so for “the good of the sport”, despite disagr🌌eeing with the stewards’ verdict.

“We still believe that this is a wrong d♕ecision, that’s our own opinion,” Binotto said.

“We believe that Charl🎐es leaves the entire space, he had no fault, a collision has happened and he has been pushed and forced off the track, so we beli😼eve these are clear rules which we may appreciate or not.

“And these are exactly the same rules which have been applied in past races. Having said that we respect f🙈ully the decision of the stewards.

“They are the judge, we need to respect that, and more than that, as a Ferrari fan - and I am ultimate Ferrari fan - I thinಌk it’s time for F1 to turn page and look ahead, other incidents and accidents that may happen in the race.

"As we often said we should leave drivers free to battle. So we may not be happy of the decision, we are not support💛ing the decision but somehow we understand the fact we need to move forward and overall that𒉰’s good for the sport and good for F1.

“We can appeal, we may somehow have intentiꦚon of appeal tonight and appeal later on but it’s our decision not to do it, as we said it’s good for the s💟port to turn the page and to look ahead.

“So bravo to Verstappen, the victory of him, he did 𓆏a fantastic race today, as Charles as well, Charles drove very well, but there will be new opportunities.”