Formula One team Mercedes will not take part in this year's young driver test in Barcelona as they have been banned and given a reprimand for using a 2013 car during a tyre test for Pirelli.
The International Tribunal panel announced its verdict at the FIA's headquarters in Paris on Thursday.
"Mercedes were guilty of a breach of the regulations and would be reprimanded, and suspended from taking part in the young driver test at Silverstone", it said.
Pirelli was also reprimanded.
Mercedes' legal representative Paul Harris had earlier suggested that if the team was found guilty, then a reprimand and ban from the young driver test in Barcelona would be appropriate.
He said, "The young driver test is a three-day test, and it is a car test over which teams have full control and teams know everything about the tyres and cars".
"If we are in this territory then it is open to the International Tribunal to impose exclusions from events that are under FIA jurisdiction, and the young driver test is that," he added.
This year's young driver test takes place on July 17-19. Mercedes reserve Sam Bird and Daniel Juncadella were likely to have a run in Barcelona
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