Gasly Gets Monaco P3 Back: What Alpine's Right of Review Win Means for the Sport

The decision confirmed in Barcelona

Pierre Gasly has been officially reinstated to third place in the Monaco Grand Prix after Alpine prevailed with its Right of Review appeal against the two five-second penalties issued to the French driver during the race.

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 before gaining another position as Mercedes' George Russell served a late drive-through penalty. He had been penalised for speeding in the pit lane twice during the race and handed two separate five-second time penalties, demoting him to seventh at the chequered flag.

The measurement error at the heart of the case

In F1, pit-lane speed is not measured by speed guns, but by calculating an average speed between a series of consecutive timing loops.

Alpine immediately lodged a Right of Review bid after the race, because it had evidence Gasly had not crossed the 60 km/h limit at any stage and had even taken additional margin to stay below the limit. During Thursday's Right of Review hearing, F1's timekeeper FOM admitted that there had been an error with the distance measurement in the pit lane from which speeds are taken, 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.

Gasly was clocked at going 60.1 km/h (0.1 km/h over the limit) on his first stop and 60.4 km/h on his second, handing him 10 seconds' worth of penalties from the stewards. ^[5]

The stewards noted their "sole task is to determine if Car 10 exceeded the speed limit of 60 km/h in the pit lane. We determine that it did not." As a result, Gasly's two time penalties were rescinded, moving him back up to third. ^[3]

Revised standings and championship impact

Gasly's two time penalties have been rescinded, moving him back up to third. He and Alpine also receive the respective drivers' and constructors' championship points, with Alpine getting its right of review deposit refunded. ^[3]

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. ^[4] The top ten now reads: Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes), Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari), Pierre Gasly (Alpine), Isack Hadjar (Red Bull), Oscar Piastri (McLaren), Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls), Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls), Alexander Albon (Williams), Esteban Ocon (Haas), and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin). ^[1]

Other penalised drivers will not benefit

Gasly was not the only driver penalised for the same offence on race day; Hamilton, George Russell, Piastri, and Franco Colapinto all received identical sanctions. Their penalties, however, appear unlikely to be reassessed, with Alpine and Gasly the only Right of Review being requested. ^[1]

:::analysis The process that cleared Gasly raises a broader question about how pit-lane speed enforcement is calibrated at street circuits. The Monaco pit lane's curved geometry means drivers take varying trajectories; combined with a loop-distance measurement error, the margin between legal and illegal became vanishingly small. Whether the sport updates its measurement protocols before the next street race will be worth watching. The precedent set here, that a post-race LIDAR scan can constitute the "significant and relevant new element" required for a Right of Review to be deemed admissible, could encourage teams to commission their own scans at future street rounds. :::

^[1]: formula1.com, "Pierre Gasly regains Monaco Grand Prix podium place after Alpine's Right of Review successful," accessed 2026-06-14. ^[2]: motorsport.com, "FIA stewards overturn Pierre Gasly's penalties, restore Monaco GP podium," accessed 2026-06-14. ^[3]: autosport.com, "Gasly regains Monaco GP podium after FIA stewards rescind pitlane speeding penalties," accessed 2026-06-14. ^[4]: skysports.com, "Pierre Gasly: Alpine driver reinstated to Monaco Grand Prix podium after successful right of review," accessed 2026-06-14. ^[5]: the-race.com, "Gasly gets Monaco GP podium back after extraordinary review," accessed 2026-06-14. ^[6]: the-race.com, "F1's stunning Gasly penalty U-turn - all you need to know," accessed 2026-06-14.

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