Alpine advances in bid to overturn Pierre Gasly's Monaco pit lane speeding penalties
Alpine Formula One team cleared the first stage of a review process to overturn pit lane speeding penalties that cost Pierre Gasly a podium finish at the Monaco Grand Prix. Stewards accepted Alpine's petition as admissible and acknowledged significant new evidence—specifically that the FIA and Formula One Management knew before the race of an issue with pit lane timing loops that may have caused inaccurate speed readings. The case matters because it could restore Gasly's third-place finish and raises questions about the reliability of official timing systems in Formula One.
Alpine Formula One team has advanced in its effort to overturn two five-second pit lane speeding penalties imposed on driver Pierre Gasly at the Monaco Grand Prix, which demoted him from third place to seventh. During a virtual hearing on Thursday, stewards ruled the petition for review admissible in both cases and accepted that significant new evidence was previously unavailable at the time of the original decisions. Alpine's core argument centers on a technical issue: Formula One Management, as the official timekeeping supplier, knew before the race that the pit lane timing loops were inaccurate and overestimated speeds. Alpine presented data showing Gasly activated his car's speed limiter before entering the pit lane and remained within the 60 kph limit, yet was penalized for readings of 60.1 and 60.4 kph. The case now moves to a second stage ahead of the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, with Gasly having expressed devastation at losing what he called a lifelong dream of a Monaco podium.
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