Pierre Gasly’s penalties from the Monaco Grand Prix have been overturned, so the Alpine driver will now be classified as third ; watch every session of the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1, with Friday’s practice sessions at 12.30pm and 4pm
Pierre Gasly has been reinstated to third place at the Monaco Grand Prix after Alpine successfully overturned the French driver’s speeding penalties.
The Monaco race stewards met with representatives from Alpine and the FIA in a video conference on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix after Alpine challenged the decision to hand Gasly two five-second time penalties which saw him drop from third to seventh.
Alpine presented evidence which the stewards agreed was a “significant and relevant new element” regarding an incorrect distance calculation in the pit lane so Gasly pushes Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar off the podium, with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri moving down to fifth and Racing Bulls duo Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad down to sixth and seventh.
Alpine’s victory in the right of review case was confirmed on Friday ahead of Practice One in Barcelona.
The stewards’ verdict read: “Following the acceptance of the petition, the finding of its admissibility… the Stewards’ sole task is to determine if Car 10 [Gasly] exceeded the speed limit of 60 km/h in the pit lane.
Soon after the confirmation, a delighted Gasly told Sky Sports F1: “I’m extremely happy for the whole team, very proud of the whole team for the way they got that result.
“Sunday night I felt very low. A lot of mixed emotions – proud of the performance, extremely sad about the whole decision and situation, some injustice in that situation.
“And I wasn’t sure how things would move forward. The team did an amazing job. I’m very proud of F1 and the FIA for the transparency and everyone recognising their responsibilities in that situation.
“We all know that with everything at stake, we look at World Championships in all different sports, we know how complicated things can be. Today, it’s a massive step forward for our sport.”
It marks Gasly’s sixth career podium and a first for him and the team since the 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with Gasly up to eighth in the Drivers’ Championship and the team pulling further clear of Racing Bulls in fifth.
Why was Gasly’s penalty overturned?
In an unusual situation, Gasly was one of five drivers who were given five-second time penalties for speeding at the Monaco Grand Prix – Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes’ George Russell, McLaren’s Piastri and Franco Colapinto in the second Alpine being the others.
All but the Alpines served their penalties during the race (Russell’s was converted to a drive-through for Mercedes incorrectly failing to serve it at his next pit stop), with Gasly’s and Colapinto’s sanctions added to their final race times.
Following confirmation from Formula One Management, the official timekeeping supplier, on Wednesday, Alpine proved to stewards that the distance used in calculating the official timing and the pit-lane speed was “inaccurate and overestimated the speed” Gasly was going at.
The unique Monaco pit lane sees drivers effectively cutting the corner, as they have for years, which shortens the pit lane distance.
In a statement summarising their conclusions, stewards said there was a “significant delta in the distance used to calculate the speed and the distance which could be driven by Car 10, and which, from the evidence presented by Alpine, appears to have been driven”.