Alpine has since asked the FIA to review <\/a>the penalties Gasly received.\u00a0<\/p>\n ![\"Cadillac](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/xpb_1415052_hires.jpg\")
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Cadillac is situated at the very end of the pit lane<\/p>\n
The problem was also seen throughout practice, with Russell, championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Alex Albon and Fernando Alonso all hit with penalties in the form of fines for speeding in the pit lane.<\/p>\n
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Documents from F1 governing body the FIA revealed that every infringement during the race was less than one kilometre per hour over the 60kph speed limit imposed for Monaco. This is 20kph slower than the standard 80kph limit used at most F1 circuits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The FIA uses transponders and electronic timing loops across a series of timing beams in the pit lane to measure the speed of a car. These calculate the time it takes for a car to pass between the loops.<\/p>\n
The unusually-high amount of penalties raised eyebrows and prompted plenty of questions among fans and experts watching.<\/p>\n
The theory, although not confirmed by the FIA, is that the penalties related to cutting the line around the Cadillac area.<\/p>\n
As F1\u2019s newest and 11th team, Cadillac is positioned at the end of the pit lane. In Monaco, this space is more open than previous years. This seemingly encouraged drivers to cut the white line.<\/p>\n
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Seven-time world champion Hamilton finished second after serving his penalty during a pit stop under a late-race safety car.<\/p>\n
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Hamilton was adamant he wasn’t speeding<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn’t speeding,\u201d he said in the post-race press conference. \u201cI think it’s just the way the pitlane is. I’ve done this pitlane for years. It’s not like I came in and didn’t press the button or something like that. Pitlane limiter is on immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s just the line that you take, which is the same line we’ve all taken for years where you come in, you kind of cut part of the white line, head down, went out. And I was shocked to hear that I was speeding because I wasn’t actually above the speed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s the distance and something that we really need to look into because I heard lots of people got that today and they probably weren’t really speeding.\u201d<\/p>\n
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McLaren team principal Andrea Stella also suggested the penalties were linked to the line taken in the pit lane.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think it might come from shortcutting too much. I think that’s the hypothesis at the moment, so then we told Oscar to just avoid that,\u201d Stella explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut initially it wasn’t understood. We know that sometimes when you shortcut too much this may induce you to be measured in excess of the speed limiter. But we don’t know more at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Explaining the bizarre situation during Sky Sports F1\u2019s coverage of the race, Bernie Collins said: “Think of when you\u2019re on a motorway, and you\u2019ve got the gantries.<\/p>\n
“How they do it is they look at what time you were in each position? The time between them is how they work out your average speed through that zone.<\/p>\n
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“So, I think by cutting the corner more in the race because they\u2019re pushing it harder than they were in practice, in that zone they have been over the 60kph limit.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s an unusual pit entry here because you\u2019re coming from a slower speed into the limited. Normally you\u2019re coming from a higher speed down to the limiter. So, sometimes that can catch drivers out.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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