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Gasly Restored to Monaco P3 After FIA Overturns Pit-Lane Speed Penalties

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Pierre Gasly has been reinstated to third place in the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix after Alpine's Right of Review proved successful. FOM admitted its pit-lane timing loops used an inaccurate distance measurement, causing speeds to be over-reported. The FIA stewards rescinded Gasly's two five-second penalties on Friday morning ahead of the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.

What happened

Pierre Gasly's Monaco Grand Prix podium has been reinstated after Alpine's Right of Review request proved successful.

The FIA confirmed the decision on Friday morning ahead of practice at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.

After starting ninth on the grid in the Principality, Gasly had improved to P4 throughout a race that included two Safety Cars and a red flag, gaining another position when Mercedes' George Russell served a late drive-through penalty. However, he was penalised for speeding in the pit lane twice during the race and was handed two separate five-second time penalties, demoting him to seventh at the chequered flag. ^[1]

The measurement error at the heart of the review

Alpine immediately lodged a Right of Review bid after the race, citing evidence that Gasly had not crossed the 60 km/h limit at any stage. During Thursday's hearing, F1 timekeeper FOM admitted there had been an error with the distance measurement in the pit lane from which speeds are calculated, causing average speeds to be over-reported. ^[2]

A post-event LIDAR scan revealed that the shortest distance between the timing loops where all speeding offences occurred during the race was 77 cm shorter than what had been used to set up the timing loop zones. ^[3] Gasly had originally been clocked at 60.1 km/h on his first stop and 60.4 km/h on his second, producing 10 seconds of penalties in total. ^[7]

The stewards noted their "sole task is to determine if Car 10 exceeded the speed limit of 60 km/h in the pit lane," and concluded: "We determine that it did not." ^[2]

Revised classification and championship points

Gasly's two time penalties have been rescinded, moving him back up to third, with Alpine and Gasly also receiving the respective constructors' and drivers' championship points. ^[2] The updated standings push Red Bull's Isack Hadjar to fourth, with McLaren's Oscar Piastri fifth and Racing Bulls duo Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad dropping to sixth and seventh. ^[4]

Other penalised drivers remain unaffected

Gasly was one of five drivers who received five-second time penalties for exceeding the pit-lane speed limit during the race; team-mate Franco Colapinto, Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, and Oscar Piastri were also penalised. ^[3] Hamilton and Piastri served their penalties during the race; Russell's five-second penalty was converted into a drive-through when Mercedes did not serve it correctly at a pit stop, and without that he would have finished third on the road. As those penalties were served in the race, there is no mechanism to reverse them. ^[3]

:::analysis The outcome exposes a systemic gap in F1's pit-lane enforcement architecture. Speed policing relies entirely on the accuracy of the distance logged between timing loops; if that figure is wrong, every calculation built on it is wrong. The fact that FOM's own post-event LIDAR scan produced the decisive evidence suggests the governing body may need to standardise a verification protocol before each event rather than relying solely on pre-season calibration. With McLaren and Red Bull having lodged intentions to appeal the reinstatement, the Monaco classification may not yet be final heading into the Madrid round.

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What happens next

McLaren and Red Bull have lodged their intention to appeal against the decision to reinstate Pierre Gasly to the Monaco Grand Prix podium. ^[5] Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said his team would "like the FIA to look at what could be the remedies" for George Russell's race in light of the details revealed by Alpine's successful right of review. ^[5]

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