Alpine seeks to restore Gasly's Monaco podium at FIA hearing on Thursday

Pierre Gasly’s Monaco Grand Prix podium will go before FIA stewards on Thursday, after the governing body confirmed it has accepted Alpine’s request for a formal review of the two five-second penalties that cost the Frenchman a third-place finish on Sunday.

Gasly crossed the line third at Monaco having climbed from ninth on the grid, but two separate pitlane speeding infringements — for exceeding the 60km/h limit by 0.1km/h and 0.4km/h respectively — added 10 seconds to his race time and dropped him to seventh in the final classification. Isack Hadjar inherited the podium place, with Oscar Piastri, Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad also moving up.

The FIA published two separate documents on Tuesday confirming that Alpine has submitted two petitions for review, one for each penalty. The virtual hearing is scheduled for 1pm CET on Thursday.

Alpine’s path to recovering the result is a narrow one. Under Article 14 of the FIA International Sporting Code, the team must first satisfy the stewards that a “significant and relevant new element” exists — evidence that was genuinely unavailable when the original decisions were made. Only if that threshold is cleared will the stewards proceed to a second phase and reconsider the penalties on their merits.

The penalties were among an unusually high number of pitlane speeding offences recorded during the Monaco race, a consequence of the circuit’s distinctive pitlane configuration. Rather than using an instantaneous speed reading, the FIA measures an average speed through the fast lane via transponders and timing loops embedded in the track surface. Drivers who took a shorter line through the curved pitlane covered less distance between timing points, producing a higher calculated average speed even if their actual velocity remained within the limit.

Gasly described the drive as one of the strongest of his Formula 1 career. For Alpine to fully restore his result, both penalties would need to be overturned — the scale of the drop from third to seventh means a partial reversal would not return him to the podium.