Oscar Piastri is \u201cmind-blown\u201d by the decision to cancel Pierre Gasly\u2019s Monaco penalties, something that dropped the McLaren driver from fourth to fifth place, five days after the race.<\/p>\n
The stewards took the extraordinary decision to overturn Gasly\u2019s two penalties<\/a> for pitlane speeding, moving him from seventh to third in the Monaco classification. <\/p>\n That cost Isack Hadjar his first podium finish for Red Bull and lost Oscar Piastri and the Racing Bulls drivers a position each. <\/p>\n Piastri likely would have been on the podium ahead of Gasly had he not had to serve a penalty for pitlane speeding. But, as was the case for George Russell, because their penalties were served in-race, they couldn\u2019t be reversed like Gasly\u2019s was. <\/p>\n Piastri, a rarely visibly irritated individual, expressed his pure bafflement at the outcome when speaking to the media after Barcelona Grand Prix qualifying. <\/p>\n \u201cI’m pretty mind-blown by the decision, because how you can reverse a decision that was ultimately wrong, but when other people have been penalised for the same thing and served a penalty in the race- how you can then change one penalty, knowing that probably five or six other races have been impacted by that, is astonishing,\u201d Piastri said. <\/p>\n \u201cSo, I mean, I’ve obviously lost a position, but you can only imagine how George is feeling – so I could not believe my eyes.\u201d <\/p>\n Piastri felt short-changed by serving his penalty in the race – while Alpine and Gasly deliberately elected not to, knowing they\u2019d argue their case after the race. <\/p>\n \u201cYes. I lost the position to Pierre because I served the penalty, so technically I should be P3 – but then, technically George should be P3, and the whole thing is now a mess. <\/p>\n \u201c[It\u2019s] quite the predicament they’ve got themselves into, and I don’t know how you get yourself out of that one, because now the precedent as it is is ‘you don’t serve the penalty, you take it to court, you wait probably a few months to decide the race’, and who the hell wants to go racing like that? <\/p>\n \u201c’Perplexed’ is the word I would use.\u201d <\/p>\n Piastri added: \u201cI think before you could kind of say bad luck, it was wrong, but it was wrong for everybody, and everyone was treated the same. <\/p>\n \u201cNow it’s very…very much how you…how you judge that. I don’t think the race result will be cancelled, but yes, it’s quite the situation that’s unfolded.\u201d <\/p>\n