Overview
- Stewards overturned Pierre Gasly’s post‑race penalty and returned him to third place at the Monaco Grand Prix after finding a pit‑lane distance and timing measurement discrepancy that can overstate speeds.
- The error stems from how pit‑lane speed is enforced: officials calculate speed by timing how long it takes a car to cover a measured pit‑lane distance and a mismeasured distance produced incorrect speed readings.
- Mercedes, Red Bull and McLaren have filed notices of intent to appeal the Gasly decision and Mercedes has consulted lawyers over George Russell’s in‑race drive‑through that dropped him out of the podium places.
- At the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona stewards issued separate late decisions, giving Franco Colapinto a 10‑second penalty and licence point for a yellow‑flag breach and issuing Kimi Antonelli a five‑second track‑limits sanction that was rendered moot by his late electrical retirement.
- Teams want faster, clearer steward communications and improved FOM timing systems because retroactive reversals and in‑race penalties can change strategies, shuffle points and affect drivers’ championship fights.