Pierre Gasly has regained his podium finish from the Monaco Grand Prix after the Formula 1 race stewards overturned his time penalties for pit lane speeding. The decision came on Friday in Spain.

What happened?

The Alpine driver received two five-second penalties for exceeding the pit lane speed limit, once by 0.1 km/h and the other by 0.4 km/h.

He crossed the finish line third, which would have marked his first podium finish since Brazil 2024 and his fifth in his F1 career, but he was demoted to seventh.

Why the penalties were overturned

The stewards discovered that all of the pit lane speeding breaches happened within the first zone during the grand prix.

Between last year’s race and this year, the barriers at the pit entry and the next timing loop had changed, “possibly enabling a significantly shorter trajectory feasible in 2026 than was possible in 2025,” per the stewards.

The length of the first zone was initially measured at 2692cm, which is what the official timekeeper advised the stewards at the time.

But Light Detection and Ranging scans taken by the timekeeper came up 77cm shorter “than the setup distance used by them to calculate the speed of the car in that “zone” of the pit lane.”

What comes next?

Alpine decided to file two rights of review as a bid to overturn Gasly’s time penalties, and it faced two hurdles in doing so.

The stewards needed to determine whether the petitions were admissible, which they did, and then decide whether to change Gasly’s penalty status.

In a stewards’ bulletin issued on Friday in Spain following yesterday’s hearings, it was confirmed that Gasly’s sanction had been overturned, restoring his podium finish.

Pierre Gasly was not the only driver penalized for pit lane speeding.

Lewis Hamilton, Oscar Piastri, George Russell and Franco Colapinto were all dinged for it, and all of their offenses were just 0.1 km/h over.

A source with knowledge of the team’s situation, speaking anonymously, said McLaren intend to appeal Piastri’s sanction.

Franco Colapinto explained Thursday in Barcelona that “In Monaco you could cut a little bit the left kink of the pit entry and it was only on our right and we were not going off the track, so we could definitely do it,”

The decision to overturn Gasly’s penalties marks a significant turn of events for the French driver, who had initially been demoted to seventh place.

The FIA stated that “We measured the relevant areas in the pitlane identically to the 2025 event and followed procedures in the usual way. However, the process has identified a measurement discrepancy.”

The outcome of the hearing is a major boost for Pierre Gasly, who will now be credited with his fifth podium finish in his F1 career.

The Monaco Grand Prix took place on June 12, 2026, and Pierre Gasly’s podium finish has been officially restored.

The French driver will look to build on this momentum in upcoming races, starting with the next Grand Prix event.