Monaco Grand Prix results changed again after latest FIA decision

Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar reclaims the third-place finish he had originally inherited on race day. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri returns to fourth.

Racing Bulls pair Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad are classified fifth and sixth respectively, with Gasly dropping from the podium back to seventh.

Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli keeps the victory, with Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton remaining second.

Gasly had crossed the finish line in third position on the streets of Monte Carlo but was clocked at 60.1 km/h and 60.4 km/h in the pit lane — fractionally above the 60 km/h limit.

The two resulting five-second sanctions were added to his total race time, initially dropping him to seventh in the official classification.

Alpine then sought a right of review, presenting fresh evidence about the measurement system used to calculate pit-lane speeds. On 12 June, five days after the race, stewards accepted the French team’s case and scrapped both penalties.

Gasly was duly restored to third — giving Alpine its first Formula 1 podium since 2024. That revised result pushed Hadjar down to fourth and also affected Piastri’s position.

Both McLaren and Red Bull subsequently lodged formal appeals against the stewards’ decision.

The entire controversy stemmed from a 77cm discrepancy between the first two timing loops in the Monaco pit lane, caused by Formula 1 incorrectly measuring the lane’s length. This error meant that average speeds were calculated inaccurately, producing an unusually high number of speeding infractions during the race.

Several drivers beyond Gasly were caught out. Piastri served his own pit-lane speeding penalty during the race itself, as did Mercedes’ George Russell.

Russell’s situation proved particularly costly. The Briton was penalised for failing to correctly serve a speeding sanction that should never have been issued in the first place, and the resulting drive-through penalty knocked him out of the points entirely.

The crucial distinction was timing: drivers who served their penalties during the race had no route to redress.

McLaren had argued when filing their appeal that teams needed assurance that the sport’s rules were enforced with consistency and fairness. The ICA’s ruling effectively endorsed that position.

According to the court’s reasoning, removing Gasly’s sanctions while other competitors had already served identical penalties during the race would have amounted to treating the Alpine driver differently from his rivals.

The hearing took place behind closed doors in Paris on 25 August, with the verdict reaching the public nearly a fortnight later.

Championship standings will now need to be recalculated, with adjustments to both the drivers’ and constructors’ points tables reflecting the restored classification.

However, as the BBC noted, the ruling does not fully resolve the wider fallout from the measurement error, which affected numerous other results — Russell’s among them.