Gasly loses Monaco podium after McLaren and Red Bull win appeals

Pierre Gasly has lost the Monaco Grand Prix podium he was awarded after an appeals court overturned the result produced by a disputed series of pit-lane speeding penalties.

McLaren and Red Bull won their appeals, while Alpine’s successful challenge against Gasly’s two five-second penalties did not preserve his third-place finish. Gasly, who crossed the line in third, returns to seventh, the position listed in the official results.

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What sporting fairness absolutely precludes is the retrospective replacement, after competitors have calibrated and competed against it, of the common event-wide calibration parameter itself by a different geometric or measurement approach for the purpose of re-adjudicating an individual competitor's result.

Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar moves back into third place and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri into fourth. Racing Bulls drivers Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad also advance to fifth and sixth. Piastri had lost two points after serving a five-second pit-lane penalty, prompting McLaren to appeal on sporting-fairness grounds.

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While we disagree with the decision, and still fully maintain that car 10 (Gasly) did not exceed the pit-lane speed limit at any point during the race, the team acknowledges the decision of the judging panel from the recent hearing in Paris.

The dispute centered on a 77-centimetre difference between the officially measured pit-lane distance and the shortest route a driver could legally take. Alpine established that Gasly had not exceeded the speed limit under the shorter measurement, leading to the cancellation of his penalty. The appeals court nevertheless ruled that officials could not replace the event-wide measurement after drivers had calibrated their cars and competed under it.

The decision does not settle every consequence of the penalties, which also affected Mercedes’ George Russell. He dropped out of the points after receiving a penalty for failing to serve another pit-lane speeding penalty correctly. Alpine said it disagreed with the ruling and continued to maintain that Gasly never exceeded the limit, but accepted the panel’s decision and said it remained focused on the championship fight.

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While the result is not what we had hoped for, as we feel that we have been unjustly punished, the team is firmly focused on continuing to improve its performance on track and remains in a close and very competitive championship fight.