BAKU : More teams could be encouraged to appeal stewards' decisions after Williams' rare success in overturning Carlos Sainz's Dutch Grand Prix penalty points, Racing Bulls' principal Alan Permane said on Friday.

Stewards from the race at Zandvoort last week cancelled two penalty points handed to Sainz when Williams had the decision overturned after producing "significant and relevant new elements".

One of those accepted elements was the fact that the Spaniard's own account of what happened in the collision with Racing Bulls' Liam Lawson could only be heard subsequent to the penalty.

"I guess it will open the door to more challenges," Permane told reporters at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku.

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