Alpine driver Pierre Gasly has 3rd-place finish at Monaco reinstated after winning appeal<\/p>\n
Alpine driver Pierre Gasly’s third-place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix was reinstated Friday after racing officials accepted an appeal filed by the Formula 1 team.<\/p>\n
Gasly finished the Monaco race third but was demoted to seventh place after race officials handed him two five-second penalties for allegedly going too fast in the pitlane.<\/p>\n
Alpine immediately appealed the ruling, and the FIA found that the timekeepers had erred in clocking his car’s speed.<\/p>\n
The FIA said in an X post on Friday that “the stewards of the Monaco GP have rescinded Gasly’s penalties, effectively handing him back his third place finish.”<\/p>\n
Already on Thursday, the FIA said that it was considering Alpine’s appeal because the timekeepers at the Monaco race had provided evidence that they had made a mistake. FIA said that the “distance used in calculating” car speeds was wrong and “overestimated the speed” of Gasly’s car.<\/p>\n
The decision came five days after the Monaco race while teams were getting set to practice for the next race in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
It meant that Alpine has its first podium finish since 2024.<\/p>\n
Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar will drop from third to fourth place in the Monaco results.<\/p>\n