Gasly Loses Monaco Podium as McLaren Wins Appeal

Pierre Gasly has lost his hard-earned Monaco Grand Prix podium after McLaren won their appeal over a muddled series of pit-lane speeding penalties that turned one of the season’s most tactical races into a legal minefield.

The decision restores Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar to third place and moves McLaren’s Oscar Piastri back up to fourth for the 7 June race, rewriting the final classification months after the chequered flag fell on the streets of Monte Carlo.

Gasly, who crossed the line third on the road, had originally been demoted to seventh by two five-second penalties for pit-lane speeding. Alpine then successfully challenged those sanctions, arguing that the measurements used to calculate average speed in the pit lane were wrong. The Frenchman was handed his podium back, celebrated it, and carried it on his record.

Not anymore.

McLaren pressed their own case, targeting the core of the controversy: Formula 1’s pit-lane length had been incorrectly measured, which meant the system used to judge average speed was flawed. With the length wrong, the speeds looked too high. Multiple drivers were hit. Multiple penalties followed. The integrity of the result came under scrutiny.

This time, the appeal went the other way. McLaren prevailed, the original official results were effectively reinstated, and Gasly was pushed back down to seventh – the position he had first been classified in before Alpine’s successful challenge.

For Hadjar, it is a significant career marker restored. The Red Bull driver is once again credited with third place in Monaco, one of the most prestigious podiums in the sport. Piastri, consistent and relentless all season, regains fourth, another result that underlines McLaren’s resurgence at the front.

For Gasly and Alpine, the ruling cuts deep. A Monaco podium is a jewel that defines careers and seasons. To win it, lose it, win it back, and then see it taken away again by a final legal swing leaves a bitter aftertaste and a complicated footnote in the record books.

The race itself is long finished. The arguments in the stewards’ room are not. And as the championship picture tightens, one question lingers: how many more grands prix will be decided long after the engines have fallen silent?