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Liam Lawson of New Zealand driving the (30) Visa Cash App Racing Bulls VCARB 03 RB Ford on track during the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco. (Source: Getty)<\/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The FIA said in an X post that \u201cthe stewards of the Monaco GP have rescinded Gasly\u2019s penalties, effectively handing him back his third place finish\u201d.<\/p>\n
Gasly celebrated the decision, which gives Alpine its first podium since 2024, on social media.<\/p>\n
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Pierre Gasly of France and Alpine F1 Team walks in the paddock during practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Barcelona-Catalunya at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on June 12, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n
\u201cWE GOT IT BACK!! P3 in Monaco!\u201d the French driver wrote on X. \u201cHuge thanks to my amazing team and all the people who supported us!! Thanks FIA & F1 for the transparency of the situation. One to remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
It means Lawson now sits tenth in the World Drivers Championship standings. <\/p>\n
Already on Friday, the FIA said that it was considering Alpine\u2019s appeal because the timekeepers at the Monaco race had provided evidence that they had made a mistake. FIA said that the \u201cdistance used in calculating\u201d car speeds was wrong and \u201coverestimated the speed\u201d of Gasly\u2019s 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
Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar will drop from third to fourth place in the Monaco results.<\/p>\n
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Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli, of Italy, celebrates on the podium after winning the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix race at the Monaco racetrack. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Gasly was one of several drivers to get penalties for speeding in the pit lane during the Monaco race, which was won by Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were aware that there had been issues with that part of the track on Friday and on Saturday, so we had some doubts about it,” Alpine managing director Steve Nielsen told reporters at the Barcelona race. “And when we saw all these penalties in the race, even though we didn\u2019t know exactly what the error was, it was not unreasonable to think that something was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Title hopeful George Russell was hit hardest after he initially received a five-second penalty for speeding, which was then upgraded to a more severe drive-through penalty because his Mercedes team didn\u2019t wait the required five seconds before working on his car at his next pit stop. That dropped Russell out of the top 10, and he didn\u2019t score any points, falling further behind Antonelli, the points leader.<\/p>\n
Mercedes and the other teams given penalties did not appeal in time, and race officials apparently are not going to alter their results.<\/p>\n
Still, seeing the Gasly decision, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said on Friday that his team is in conversations with the FIA to see \u201cwhat could be done for George\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly, without the penalty and without us not serving it correctly, it would have been a totally different outcome for (Russell’s) race,\u201d Wolff said. \u201cWe would like the FIA to look at other remedies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi F1 driver Liam Lawson has lost his joint career-best finish of fifth at the Monaco Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[238294,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-474416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-f1autoz26","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}