{"id":732989,"date":"2026-06-13T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732989\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:18:11","slug":"f1-news-2026-mercedes-threatens-legal-action-after-successful-gasly-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732989\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news 2026: Mercedes threatens legal action after successful Gasly appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercedes<\/a> is considering legal action after Alpine\u2019s<\/a> successful appeal which reinstated Pierre Gasly<\/a>\u2019s podium finish from Monaco, following successive five-second pit-lane penalties.<\/a><\/p>\n

McLaren<\/a> and Red Bull<\/a> are also planning to appeal the decision, which came five days after the event.<\/p>\n

\"Mercedes<\/p>\n

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff.\u00a0AP Photo\/Philippe Magoni<\/p>\n

Formula 1<\/a> stewards accepted a timing error and reinstated Gasly to third place for the race in Monaco.<\/p>\n

Formula 1, responsible for the timekeeping, admitted to a \u201cmeasurement discrepancy\u201d resulting from pit lane changes and stewards rescinded Gasly\u2019s penalties after a virtual hearing at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix following Alpine\u2019s request for review.<\/p>\n

Mercedes now wants to get George Russell\u2019s penalties from Monaco overturned and their driver to be placed either third or fourth.<\/p>\n

Russell\u2019s entire race was impacted as Mercedes did not observe the penalty correctly, meaning he was then hit with a drive-through penalty, which dropped him from third to 13th.<\/p>\n

According to the Telegraph, a Mercedes source said the team was \u201clivid\u201d about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us as a team, and especially for George, it has massive implications,\u201d team boss Toto Wolff said. <\/p>\n

\u201cClearly without the penalty, and without us not serving it correctly, it would have been a totally different outcome for his race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are assessing as we speak what the Gasly situation does for George. Obviously there are certain timing restraints. We wouldn\u2019t appeal the Gasly result but we\u2019d like the FIA to look at what could be the remedies for George\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we are having some timing limitations, some legal constraints, but definitely I think we have a reason to be annoyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what exactly they hoped to achieve, Wolff added: \u201cWell I think talks definitely going forward. But we also need to look at\u2026 when I left we were on the phone with our lawyers to see what we can do for George.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Pierre Gasly was robbed of a podium due to his speeding penalties. \u00a0Jayce Illman<\/p>\n

\u201cThe drive-through, if it didn\u2019t happen, was equivalent to 20 seconds race time. What would that have meant for his result? Do we think realistically we have a chance of reversing the result? I don\u2019t think so. But we definitely have to give it a go if we see there is a millimetre of a chance to do so, and bring him back to whatever it was, P3 or P4.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gasly was adamant on Sunday that he had not been speeding and said he was heartbroken by the penalties and \u201cto have a lifelong dream of a Monaco podium taken away from me for reasons which I just cannot comprehend\u201d.<\/p>\n

As well as Isack Hadjar dropping down, after joining Mercedes winner Kimi Antonelli and Ferrari\u2019s Lewis Hamilton on Sunday\u2019s podium, McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri is now shuffled down to fifth.<\/p>\n

Alpine argued in their written submission that both the FIA and Formula 1 Management (FOM), but not the stewards, knew before the race that there was an issue with the timing loops in the pit lane.<\/p>\n

They provided data showing that Gasly activated the car\u2019s speed limiter before entering the pit lane and had stayed within the limit. The timing had recorded him doing 60.1 and 60.4 kph when the limit was 60 kph.<\/p>\n

Stewards confirmed the inaccurate distance measurement was provided by FOM only on Wednesday after the race.<\/p>\n

They noted concern during the race after three initial pit lane speeding breaches, all at 60.1 km\/h, and said they had asked race control if there was any issue with the system, to which the answer was negative.<\/p>\n

Formula 1 said it had followed procedures in the usual way. \u201cAny improvements or refinements that are identified as being required in light of this situation will be implemented,\u201d a spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes is considering legal action after Alpine\u2019s successful appeal which reinstated Pierre Gasly\u2019s podium finish from Monaco, following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-732989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}