Alpine driver Pierre Gasly’s third-place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix has been reinstated after racing officials accepted an appeal filed by the Formula 1 team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gasly finished the Monaco race third, but was demoted to seventh place after race officials handed him two 5-second penalties for allegedly going too fast in the pit lane.<\/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The FIA said in an X post on Friday that “the stewards of the Monaco GP have rescinded Gasly’s penalties, effectively handing him back his third place finish”.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
Speaking after his initial ousting from the podium, Gasly said he was convinced the penalties should not have been handed down.<\/p>\n
“Right now, I’m just heartbroken. I don’t know what to say. I don’t want to be speaking right now,” Gasly said.<\/p>\n
“The team set the right speed limiter. I put it way before the line both times \u2026 It hurts when you pass the line on the podium. I don’t know, hopefully they can fight it. Hopefully they can appeal it.”<\/p>\n
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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
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