According to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), West “explained that the prohibited substance had entered his system through an energy drink (“Mesomorph”) that he had purchased, prepared, and consumed on the assumption that it did not contain any prohibited substances since it was purchased in a nutritional shop.”
The infringement was originally announced last November, with West disqualified from his seventh place finish at the French Grand Prix and handed a one-month ban, which caused him to miss the 2012 Valencia season finale.
However the World Anti-Doping Agency then appealed to the CAS for a harsher punishment, the outcome of which has now been announced and means that all of West’s results from the 2012 French GP until 19 October 2013 will be wiped from the record books.
Most notably the decision means that West has lost the two runner-up positions he claimed at the 2012 Malaysian and Australian rounds.
Gino Rea will thus be promoted from third to second at Sepang, with wild-card Hafizh Syahrin credited with third and a first GP podium. The revised Australian results will see Marc Marquez rise from third to second and Scott Redding fourth to third etc.
Remaining with the QMMF (Speed Up) team, West moved from 16th to 15th overall in this year’s championship, but could only claim a best race finish of seventh. West, a 250cc race winner and former factory Kawasaki MotoGP rider, is due to continue with QMMF next season.
The full press release from the FIM explaining the revised punishment can be seen below:
“The FIM has taken note of the Award handed down on 22 November 2013 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the case of rider Anthony West, participant in the 2012 FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix in the Moto2 Class.
“On 20 May 2012, Anthony West underwent an anti-doping test conducted by the FIM at the 2012 French Grand Prix. The urine sample obtained from Mr West revealed the presence of a stimulant (Methylhexaneamine) prohibited in competition under the FIM Anti-doping Code in force.
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