FIA restores Gasly's Monaco GP podium after overturning two pitlane speed penalties

Pierre Gasly has been reinstated to the Monaco Grand Prix podium after FIA stewards overturned both five-second pitlane speeding penalties that had originally dropped the Alpine driver from third place in the final classification.

The reversal followed a successful Right of Review request lodged by Alpine, which presented evidence that the distance figure used by Formula One Management’s timing system to calculate pitlane speeds was inaccurate. With that measurement called into question, stewards concluded that Gasly had not in fact exceeded Monaco’s 60km/h pitlane speed limit, and amended the race results accordingly.

The Right of Review process allows a team to petition the stewards to reopen a case when significant new evidence emerges that was not available at the time of the original ruling. Alpine’s submission centred specifically on the technical methodology behind the speed calculation rather than a dispute over the raw data itself — a distinction that proved decisive in persuading stewards to act.

The outcome hands Gasly and Alpine a podium finish that had appeared lost in the immediate aftermath of the race, and will also affect the points standings of any drivers who had been promoted into the top three following the original penalties.