Monaco Grand Prix: Alpine request Right of Review after Pierre Gasly is denied P3

Pierre Gasly was on track to deliver Alpine’s best result of the season at the Monaco Grand Prix. But a pair of five-second penalties handed down after ther checkered flag dropped the veteran driver from third to seventh.

Now Alpine wants Formula 1 to take another look at those penalties.

Gasly was one of several drivers to be handed a five-second penalty for speeding in pit lane, along with George Russell, Lewis Hamilton, Oscar Piastri, and teammate Franco Colapinto. For his part, Russell blaned a software issue after the race, and even visited with race officials during a late-stage red flag to discuss the matter.

“I’m not too sure why we got a penalty because I was on the pit limiter before the line,” said Russell after the race, as quoted by Race Fans. “I released it after the line but clearly there’s a problem in the software and many drivers got penalties.”

Alpine released a brief statement on social media, noting their request for a Right of Review:

In addition Steve Nielsen, the team’s Managing Director, released this video where he praised Gasly’s “great performance:”

As for Gasly, the veteran driver said he was “heartbroken” in the media pen.

“Right now, I’m just heartbroken. I don’t know what to say. I don’t want to be speaking right now,” said Gasly.

“We all work so hard to get these moments, and then when it gets taken away from you for some things which we need to review. The team set the right speed limiter, and I put it way before the line on both times.

“I crossed the line in P3 in Monaco in front of all the fans and all the people here, and in the end we get penalised and finish far away. I don’t really know what to say.”

Gasly also noted that the penalties cost him what would have been the sixth podium of his career.

“It’s been ten years I do this, I have five podiums in my career, and it hurts when you pass the line on the podium and then … I don’t know…

“Hopefully they [Alpine] can fight it, hopefully they can appeal it, because I just feel like we’ve done everything we had to do.”

The last team to have a successful Right of Review was Williams, after the team questioned a ten-second penalty given to Carlos Sainz Jr. for causing a collision with Liam Lawson at last season’s Dutch Grand Prix. Following the review, race stewards ultimately agreed with Williams, removing the two penalty points he was handed following the decision.

However, they could not reverse the ten-second penalty, as Sainz had served it during the race.