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[Jimlaad43]

Alfa Romeo's disqualification from the German Grand Prix stays. Hamilton keeps his 9th place in Germany, and crucially, Kubica and Williams keep their only point from the season so far.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alfa-romeo-hockenheim-appeal-result/4547184/

 

[TenEightyOne]

Alfa Romeo's disqualification from the German Grand Prix stays. Hamilton keeps his 9th place in Germany, and crucially, Kubica and Williams keep their only point from the season so far.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alfa-romeo-hockenheim-appeal-result/4547184/

As we've seen a car is either legal or not, and that's how it should be. Sometimes these tolerances are unimaginably tiny* but the rules set a limit and that's that.

*Didn't Renault over-exert their power input for just over a millisecond in Singapore?

 

[Barra333]

*Didn't Renault over-exert their power input for just over a millisecond in Singapore?

I think their claim was that it over revved when it hit a curb, and provided a millisecond advantage on the not-best lap of the session.

 

[DesertPenguin]

I think their claim was that it over revved when it hit a curb, and provided a millisecond advantage on the not-best lap of the session.

1 millionth of a second, to be exact.

 

[TetsuKobura]

Rules are rules, and Renault doesn’t really have a right to complain after reporting Haas in 2018 Monza over a few millimeters on the floor that had no bearing on the race.

 

[PeterJB]

Has a penalty ever been successfully appealed?

 

[Jimlaad43]

Has a penalty ever been successfully appealed?

Probably by Ferrari yes