Pierre Gasly has been reinstated to third place at the Monaco Grand Prix after Alpine successfully overturned the French driver’s speeding penalties.
The Monaco race stewards met with representatives from Alpine and the FIA in a video conference on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Bacelona-Catalunya Grand Prix after Alpine challenged the decision to hand Gasly two five-second time penalties which saw him drop from third to seventh.
Alpine presented evidence which the stewards agreed was a “significant and relevant new element” so Gasly pushes Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar off the podium with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri moving down to fifth and Racing Bulls duo Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad down to sixth and seventh.
Alpine’s victory in the right of review case was confirmed on Friday ahead of Practice One in Barcelona.
The stewards’ verdict read: “Following the acceptance of the petition, the finding of its admissibility and compliance with Article 14.1.1 of the ISC, the Stewards’ sole task is to determine if Car 10 exceeded the speed limit of 60 km/h in the pit lane.
“We determine that it did not.”
Gasly was one of five drivers who were given five-second time penalties for speeding at the Monaco Grand Prix – Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes’ George Russell, McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Franco Colapinto being the others.
Alpine proved that the distance used in calculating the official timing and the pit-lane speed was “inaccurate and overestimated the speed” Gasly was going at.
More to follow…
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Ahead of this weekend’s Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, we take a look back at some of the most dramatic moments from previous races at the circuit
Friday June 12
8.50am: F3 Practice
10am: F2 Practice
12pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP Practice One (session starts at 12.30pm)
1.55pm: F3 Qualifying
2.50pm: F2 Qualifying
3.35pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP Practice Two (session starts at 4pm)*
5.30pm: The F1 Show
6.30pm: Team Bosses’ Press Conference
Saturday June 13
9am: F3 Sprint
11.15am: Barcelona-Catalunya GP Practice Three (session starts at 11.30am)
1.10pm: F2 Sprint*
2.15pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP Qualifying build-up*
3pm: BARCELONA-CATALUNYA GP QUALIFYING*
5pm: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook
Sunday June 14
7.35am: F3 Feature Race
9.05am: Porsche Supercup
10.20am: F2 Feature Race
12.30pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP build-up: Grand Prix Sunday*
2pm: THE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA GRAND PRIX*
4pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP reaction: Chequered Flag
5pm: Ted’s Notebook
*Also on Sky Sports Main Event
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