As F1 heads to Austria the final result of Monaco goes to the courts

Pierre Gasly (left) was reinstated to third in Monaco, which demoted Oscar Piastri (right) to fifth. (Getty Images: LAT Images/Guido De Bortoli) Link copiedShareShare articleFormula 1's "jewel in the crown" was raced on June 7, but the final result is still weeks away. As F1 descends on the scenic Styrian Mountains for this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix, two teams are in the process of trying to reverse the result in Monaco. Frenchman Pierre Gasly crossed the line third, was demoted to seventh after two pit-lane speeding penalties, but was then reinstated to the podium five days later. But that reinstatement has led McLaren and Red Bull to launch their own appeals, with the case set to be heard in motorsport's top court and a result still weeks away. Mercedes teenager Kimi Antonelli led from pole position to win the race, but the real drama happened behind him. There was an unusually high number of drivers that were caught speeding in the pit lane. Teenage sensation Kimi Antonelli was flawless to lead every lap of a drama-filled Monaco Grand Prix, claiming a fifth consecutive win to extend his lead in the Formula 1 drivers' championship. Alpine duo Gasly and Franco Colapinto, along with Oscar Piastri, George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, were all penalised for pit lane speeding. The penalty for exceeding the pit lane speed is 5 seconds, which most drivers in Monaco served. Hamilton served his penalty during his second pit stop, but it mattered little as he finished second. Piastri did the same, but he then dropped behind Gasly during the race. Mercedes did not wait 5 seconds before Russell's second pit stop, which was another violation, and resulted in the Brit being handed a late drive-through penalty, which dropped him from third to out of the top 10. However, Gasly and Colapinto never had a chance to serve their penalties. A red flag late in the race halted the action and forced all drivers back in the pits, where tyre changes are permitted. It meant there was never an opportunity for those penalties to be served during the race, and the consequences had to be applied at the conclusion. For Gasly, who had been caught speeding twice, it meant he crossed the finish line in third but was classified seventh after having 10 seconds added to his time. After the race, Gasly, who is French and the Monaco Grand Prix is the closest he has to a home race, was left devastated. "Right now, I'm just heartbroken. I don't know what to say. I don't want to be speaking right now," Gasly said. "The team set the right speed limiter. I put it way before the line both times … It hurts when you pass the line on the podium. I don't know, hopefully they can fight it. Hopefully they can appeal it." Alpine requested a Right of Review into the result of the grand prix, and after a pair of hearings ahead of the following Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix weekend, Gasly had his penalties removed and was reinstated to the podium five days after the race. Alpine was able to argue that Formula One Management had made an error in measuring the speed of cars at the entrance of the Monaco pit lane. With Gasly being moved onto the podium, Red Bull's Isack Hadjar dropped from third to fourth, Piastri from fourth to fifth, and Racing Bulls duo Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad dropped a place each to sixth and seventh. After Gasly received the good news, McLaren and Red Bull launched the appeals procedure. Last week, McLaren submitted an appeal to the FIA's International Court of Appeal (ICA) in Geneva against documents 99, 100 and 101 of the Monaco Grand Prix, which were the reinstatement of Gasly's third place and an update of the race classifications. From a dodgy section of track to a mega celebrity watching her partner equal a record with the great Ayrton Senna, the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix had plenty of talking points. In a statement released by the team, McLaren argued the decision to overturn the race result effectively rewarded Gasly for not taking the penalties handed to him during the race. "While we fully respect the FIA's judicial processes and the role of the stewards, we believe this case raises important questions concerning sporting fairness, regulatory consistency and the integrity of competition," the team stated. "The subsequent removal of penalties creates a situation in which some competitors are disadvantaged by having acted in accordance with the rules and the stewards' decisions. Such an outcome risks creating sporting inequity and undermining confidence in the consistent application of the FIA Sporting Regulations." Red Bull also submitted an appeal, as reported by motorsport publication Autosport. No driver was more harshly penalised in Monaco than Russell. He was penalised for speeding in the pit lane, then his team failed to complete that penalty when he came in for a second stop, which is another penalty in itself. Russell's drive-through penalty late in the grand prix dropped him from third

As F1 heads to Austria the final result of Monaco goes to the courts

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