The Portuguese driver was stripped of his win within the inaugural Misano E-Prix earlier this month after his Porsche automobile failed post-race checks.
This was after FIA scrutineers discovered an ineligible throttle damper setting associated to the spring was fitted to the automobile.
The half in query had been beforehand used on the Gen2 machines however its inclusion within the “GEN3 Spark Catalogue” was eliminated when the brand new automobile was launched for the 2022-23 season.
Porsche admitted that the spring had been used on the automobile because the begin of the Gen3 period as solely the addition of latest components was highlighted within the catalogue, not if they’d been eliminated.
Forward of the Monaco E-Prix this weekend, da Costa believes that such a call hours after the race will not be good for the championship and is troublesome to clarify to followers when the end result of the end result has modified.
“There isn’t a efficiency benefit, it’s actually a serial quantity mistake,” da Costa informed Autosport.
“Let’s discover one other approach, only for the great of everybody and all the pieces.
“Clearly on my aspect, it hurts as a result of I believed it was a well-executed race, I used to be tremendous cautious, I did the fitting issues on the proper occasions. Gained the race from thirteenth after which your factors are gone.
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“It was additionally an amazing alternative for us to relaunch the championship, I might have been about fifth or sixth now and perhaps 20-30 factors away. Now I’m 69 factors away.
“We must be doing these penalties higher only for the great of the game, I believe.
He added: “Attempt explaining to somebody how I misplaced the win [to fans], it’s unimaginable. Individuals don’t perceive.”
Instantly after the disqualification was introduced, Porsche lodged an intent to attraction the choice, giving the German producer 96 hours to resolve whether or not to take additional motion.
Forward of the deadline final week, the crew confirmed it might be interesting the choice with a listening to now as a consequence of happen in early June to find out if da Costa can be reinstated.
“It’s an indication that the factors are as necessary for me as they’re for the crew,” he added.
“It’s an indication they wish to be on the offensive and get these factors again. And I actually do imagine we’re in the fitting.
“I’m not a cheater, no one here’s a cheater, I don’t like cheaters and if there was a efficiency benefit, I might be the primary one to say, ‘that is it, we’re accurately out of the race’, however that’s not the case. Let’s see the place it leads.”