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After Aston Martin appealed, it was agreed that touching the car while serving a penalty did not break rules on "working" on the car and "on balance", Kravitz believes it was the correct decision.
"He got a penalty, but when you serve a penalty, you are not allowed to do any work on the car," said Kravitz.
"The remote operations centre had seen whether the guy at the back holding the rear jack had actually touched the car before the five-second penalty was served.
"At the time, they had decided that there was no real hard place to go with Aston Martin, that he hadn't touched the car, and even if he had, it was OK.
"But then later on, another team that had something to gain, the rumour is Mercedes but that is unconfirmed, complained and said we think you need to take a further look at this because the Sporting Advisory Committee (SAC) had said maybe you can't touch the back of the car with the rear jack
"He got a penalty, but when you serve a penalty, you are not allowed to do any work on the car," said Kravitz.
"The remote operations centre had seen whether the guy at the back holding the rear jack had actually touched the car before the five-second penalty was served.
"At the time, they had decided that there was no real hard place to go with Aston Martin, that he hadn't touched the car, and even if he had, it was OK.
"But then later on, another team that had something to gain, the rumour is Mercedes but that is unconfirmed, complained and said we think you need to take a further look at this because the Sporting Advisory Committee (SAC) had said maybe you can't touch the back of the car with the rear jack