Overview
- FP1 at the Monaco Grand Prix was red-flagged after Fernando Alonso's crash and restarted with under a minute remaining, prompting drivers to attempt practice starts from the pit lane.
- Liam Lawson left the garage after being told he had seven seconds and reached the pit exit as the green light changed to red roughly 0.8 seconds before he crossed the line.
- Lawson told his team he had been watching a countdown clock above the pit exit that still showed two seconds, and the stewards confirmed that display is unofficial and not synchronised with the pit-exit light.
- Stewards judged that Lawson had insufficient time to safely stop and that stopping could have left him stalled on a live track, so they imposed no penalty for the red-light crossing.
- A separate formal warning was issued to Arvid Lindblad for impeding Oscar Piastri, and the incident highlights a likely need to review pit-lane display synchronisation and restart procedures to avoid similar confusion.