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Oscar Piastri Firmly States FIA Can’t Alter Monaco GP Outcome Despite Alpine Review
Highlights
- Oscar Piastri says Monaco GP result cannot be changed
- Alpine’s review challenges Gasly’s pit lane speed penalties
- Five drivers penalized for exceeding 60kph pit lane speed
- Penalties affected race strategies and final driver classifications
- Monaco’s pit lane speed detection system deemed flawed
- FIA unlikely to alter race result despite Alpine’s review
Oscar Piastri maintains the Monaco Grand Prix result should stand, despite Alpine’s Right of Review into pit-lane speeding penalties issued during the race.
Alpine triggered the review after Pierre Gasly received two five-second penalties, demoting him from a provisional podium to seventh in the final classification.
Five drivers were penalized for exceeding the 60kph limit: Gasly, Franco Colapinto, Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and Piastri. Monaco’s layout and detection method appeared to catch them out.
Five drivers were penalized for exceeding Monaco’s 60kph pit lane limit.
Gasly’s second infraction came before the finish, but without another stop he served both post-race. That timing materially reshaped positions once penalties were applied.
The FIA faces a sequencing problem. Several rivals served penalties on track, influencing strategy and gaps. Simply deleting Gasly’s sanctions would distort the race’s competitive integrity.
Russell slipped from contention and finished outside the points. Piastri called the volume of infringements unusual and said his looming penalty shaped McLaren’s late-race decisions during Piastri’s Monaco GP weekend, as he explained.
Piastri insists the result should stand because strategies hinged on the penalties.
He added that Hamilton and Russell serving their penalties temporarily promoted Gasly. Without his own sanction, Piastri believes he likely would have avoided another stop.
Piastri argues changing the result now would be unfair, though he wants better systems. The focus of Alpine’s Right of Review is procedural, not a bid to reorder the classification.
If the target were positions, a formal protest or appeal would have been appropriate. The related FIA review of the ADUO ruling also frames the regulatory context.
Alpine’s review questions process rather than seeking a reclassification.
The case underscores shortcomings in Monaco’s pit-lane speed detection. Teams expect refinements for atypical layouts following Alpine’s broader exchanges with the FIA in Monaco and this review.
As the FIA considers submissions, the paddock watches ahead of Barcelona, where procedural clarity could matter as much as outright pace.
Visual Summary
One Pit Lane. Many Penalties.
Gasly’s lost Monaco podium (P3 ➔ P7)
Five drivers – Gasly, Hamilton, Russell, Piastri, Colapinto – were caught speeding in Monaco’s pit lane.
Gasly’s double penalty killed his podium — but as Oscar Piastri says:
“You can’t rewrite the entire race.”
⛔ Integrity Ripple: Changing one penalty
would unravel the race for all.
Piastri’s Verdict:
“It’s a shame… but we can’t change the result now.”
System flaws must be fixed — so no driver loses a podium this way again.
System flaws must be fixed — so no driver loses a podium this way again.
Monaco’s Pit Lane Chaos Timeline:
⚡
Detection flaw
Detection flaw
?️
5 drivers penalized
5 drivers penalized
?
On-track penalties
On-track penalties
?
Gasly drops to 7th
Gasly drops to 7th
⏭️
The review won’t change results —
but it could change F1’s approach to penalties
ahead of Barcelona and beyond.
Daniel Miller reports on Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends with race-day analysis, team-radio highlights, and point-standings updates. He explains power-unit upgrades, aerodynamic developments, and driver rivalries in straightforward, SEO-friendly language for a global F1 audience.
