PIERRE GASLY has been reinstated to third place at the Monaco Grand Prix after Alpine successfully overturned his speeding penalties.
The Monaco race stewards met with representatives from Alpine and the FIA in a video conference on Thursday ahead of the
Isack Hadjar has been bumped off the podium Credit: EPhotopress/Shutterstock
Pierre Gasly has been reinstated to third Credit: Shutterstock Editorial
Alpine challenged the decision to hand a heartbroken Gasly two five-second time penalties which saw him drop from third to seventh.
It means Gasly now swaps with on the podium with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri moving down to fifth.
Racing Bulls duo Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad also slip down to sixth and seventh.
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.”
A whopping five drivers, including Gasly, were hit with 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 in the second Alpine being the others.
Struggling
When the Alpine review was put to Russell, he said: “It would be another kick in the balls if it does get overturned.
“I was trying to plead with the FIA not to take the drive through and give me the penalty retrospectively.
“Because if there are as many drive through penalty incidents in one race as there had been the whole year so clearly something was not quite right.
“At the moment it feels like one thing after another. Of course the performance in Monaco wasn’t good enough nor was it in Miami,
“But if we had a smooth year not a lucky year I would have had three more podiums so that’s five out of six, two out of three sprint race wins and two out of six race wins.
“For sure I don’t think I’d be ahead of Kimi but I’d be right there and it’s a different story.”
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