Pierre Gasly has been reinstated to third place at the Monaco Grand Prix after Alpine successfully overturned the French driver's speeding penalties.
The Monaco race stewards met with representatives from Alpine and the FIA in a video conference on Thursday ahead of this weekend's Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix after Alpine challenged the decision to hand Gasly two five-second time penalties which saw him drop from third to seventh.
Alpine presented evidence which the stewards agreed was a "significant and relevant new element" regarding an incorrect distance calculation in the pit lane so Gasly pushes Red Bull's Isack Hadjar off the podium, with McLaren's Oscar Piastri moving down to fifth and Racing Bulls duo Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad down to sixth and seventh.
Alpine's victory in the right of review case was confirmed on Friday ahead of Practice One in Barcelona.
The stewards' verdict read: "Following the acceptance of the petition, the finding of its admissibility... the Stewards' sole task is to determine if Car 10 [Gasly] exceeded the speed limit of 60 km/h in the pit lane.
"We determine that it did not."
Soon after the confirmation, a delighted Gasly told Your Site F1: "I'm extremely happy for the whole team, very proud of the whole team for the way they got that result.
"Sunday night I felt very low. A lot of mixed emotions - proud of the performance, extremely sad about the whole decision and situation, some injustice in that situation.
"And I wasn't sure how things would move forward. The team did an amazing job. I'm very proud of F1 and the FIA for the transparency and everyone recognising their responsibilities in that situation.
"We all know that with everything at stake, we look at World Championships in all different sports, we know how complicated things can be. Today, it's a massive step forward for our sport."
It marks Gasly's sixth career podium and a first for him and the team since the 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with Gasly up to eighth in the Drivers' Championship and the team pulling further clear of Racing Bulls in fifth.
In an unusual situation, Gasly was one of five drivers who were given five-second time penalties for speeding at the Monaco Grand Prix - Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes' George Russell, McLaren's Piastri and Franco Colapinto in the second Alpine being the others.
All but the Alpines served their penalties during the race (Russell's was converted to a drive-through for Mercedes incorrectly failing to serve it at his next pit stop), with Gasly's and Colapinto's sanctions added to their final race times.
Following confirmation from Formula One Management, the official timekeeping supplier, on Wednesday, Alpine proved to stewards that the distance used in calculating the official timing and the pit-lane speed was "inaccurate and overestimated the speed" Gasly was going at.
The unique Monaco pit lane sees drivers effectively cutting the corner, as they have for years, which shortens the pit lane distance.
In a statement summarising their conclusions, stewards said there was a "significant delta in the distance used to calculate the speed and the distance which could be driven by Car 10, and which, from the evidence presented by Alpine, appears to have been driven".
Stewards said they noted "that in relation to other cars that were penalised, some served their penalty and this regrettably, impacted their race strategies and therefore their race result.
"There will undoubtedly remain questions as to whether those breaches were genuine. There is no regulation that gives the Stewards the power to 'undo' a served penalty.
"In any case, it is impossible to imagine how such power could be applied. Notably, no other party petitioned for a Right of Review within the allowable time frame."
Mercedes' Russell had been running ahead of Gasly, for instance, in third before he had to serve a drive-through penalty late on in the race for the team's failure to serve his original five-second sanction correctly at his second pit stop.
The drive-through penalty dropped Russell out of the points completely, a major blow to his championship aspirations in a race won by title-leading team-mate Kimi Antonelli.
But speaking on Thursday, Russell said that while he hoped Gasly's podium was reinstated, nothing could be done to overturn his own sanctions.
"This was why I was pleading with them not to give me the drive-through penalty for the incorrect penalty in the race because once you have a drive-through, there's nothing you can do," said Russell.
"There was clearly something wrong in Monaco because you had more pit-lane speeding in one race than you have in a whole season.
"Pierre deserves to get his result back, but of course, from my side, it's going to be very annoying, but it changes nothing. The race is done now."
Friday June 12
8.50am: F3 Practice
10am: F2 Practice
12pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP Practice One (session starts at 12.30pm)
1.55pm: F3 Qualifying
2.50pm: F2 Qualifying
3.35pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP Practice Two (session starts at 4pm)*
5.30pm: The F1 Show
6.30pm: Team Bosses' Press Conference
Saturday June 13
9am: F3 Sprint
11.15am: Barcelona-Catalunya GP Practice Three (session starts at 11.30am)
1.10pm: F2 Sprint*
2.15pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP Qualifying build-up*
3pm: BARCELONA-CATALUNYA GP QUALIFYING*
5pm: Ted's Qualifying Notebook
Sunday June 14
7.35am: F3 Feature Race
9.05am: Porsche Supercup
10.20am: F2 Feature Race
12.30pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP build-up: Grand Prix Sunday*
2pm: THE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA GRAND PRIX*
4pm: Barcelona-Catalunya GP reaction: Chequered Flag
5pm: Ted's Notebook
*Also on Your Site Main Event
Formula 1 is in Spain for the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix with live coverage on Your Site F1 from Friday.
