Because of this unforeseen dissonance, Luca was set to miss the Austrian GP... by voluntary decision. A part of this decision was made out of anger and unhappiness that Ferrari still refused to let him pull out of their grip of suspicion. He saw it as pure disrespect and a direct insult to his name if he dared to enter his 97 and race for Jackson at the RBR Circuit in Spielberg while he was still accused of data breach.
Moreover, Luca also wanted to extinguish his emotions before piloting a single-seater. Competing with such aggravation and indignation could easily lead to an unsafe race for himself, so he chose to avoid it altogether. Furthermore, he didn't even attend any drills or team preparations leading up to the 13th race of the season, leaving him completely out of sync with whatever strategy or technical setup had been drafted for the race.
