BARCELONA — Pierre Gasly has regained his podium finish from the Monaco Grand Prix after the Formula 1 race stewards overturned his time penalties for pit lane speeding.The decision came after a two-part hearing, the first of which dealt with whether the rights of review were admissible, and the second part to determine whether they would overturn the Frenchman’s penalties.The Alpine driver received two five-second penalties for exceeding the pit lane speed limit, once by 0.1 km/h and the other by 0.4 km/h. He crossed the finish line third, which would have marked his first podium finish since Brazil 2024 and his fifth in his F1 career, but he was demoted to seventh.Gasly was not the only driver penalized for pit lane speeding. Lewis Hamilton, Oscar Piastri, George Russell and Franco Colapinto were all dinged for it, and all of their offenses were just 0.1 km/h over. A source with knowledge of the team’s situation, speaking anonymously as they were not authorized to do so, say McLaren intend to appeal Piastri’s sanction.“In Monaco you could cut a little bit the left kink of the pit entry and it was only on our right and we were not going off the track, so we could definitely do it,” Colapinto explained Thursday in Barcelona. “And looks like, due to a matter of distance, we looked over speeding, but we were not.”Alpine decided to file two rights of review as a bid to overturn Gasly’s time penalties, and it faced two hurdles in doing so. The stewards needed to determine whether the petitions were admissible, which they did, and then decide whether to change Gasly’s penalty status.(Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images)In a stewards’ bulletin issued on Friday in Spain following yesterday’s hearings, it was confirmed that Gasly’s sanction had been overturned, restoring his podium finish.The stewards found there was a 77cm discrepancy between the official timekeeper’s measurement of two timing loops in the pit lane, and the distance measured by Alpine following the race on Sunday. FIA single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis said in the hearing that the timekeeper’s method of measuring the pit lane in Monaco may be “insufficient.”In the document, it was outlined that the stewards’ sole task was to determine whether Gasly was speeding in the pit lane, which they determined he did not.“As part of the right of review process relating to Monaco, we have proactively assisted the FIA in gathering all the relevant information to help inform the steward’s assessments,” F1 said in a statement on Friday.“We measured the relevant areas in the pitlane identically to the 2025 event and followed procedures in the usual way. However, the process has identified a measurement discrepancy. Like everyone in the sport we strive for the best results and, as always, any improvements or refinements that are identified as being required in light of this situation will be implemented.”Why the rights of review were admissibleAlpine petitioned for a right of review over Gasly’s penalties, and the first hurdle is determining whether the evidence presented is new, significant, relevant and not available to the team when the decision was made. For the stewards to revisit a decision, all four criteria must be met.The stewards determined that for both penalties, all four criteria were met. As far as “significance,” Alpine raised four matters.According to the decision document, Formula One Management, who is the official timekeeping supplier to the competition, and the FIA “were aware in advance of the race that there was an issue with the timing loops in the pit lane,” but the race stewards were not aware. Both the FIA and FOM “strongly refuted” the notion, though.Alpine provided data that showed Gasly did activate the pit lane speed limiter before reaching pit lane entry and didn’t exceed the speed limit. Gasly provided a witness statement about how he was cautious in his approach to pit lane, following warnings from his engineers.FOM “provided evidence that the distance used in calculating the F1 Official Timing (and hence the pit lane speed) was inaccurate and overestimated the speed of” Gasly’s car.FOM provided the evidence “concerning the inaccurate distance measurement” on Wednesday, a day prior to the hearings. That shows it was new and unavailable to the race stewards at the time when the penalty was dealt.According to the stewards’ decision document, there’s a note that the race stewards “became concerned” when the official timekeeper brought them a third speeding breach.The stewards proceeded to ask race control “if it was aware of any issue or irregularity with the system”.“Race Control reported back that it raised the matter with the Official Timekeeper and was reassured that there were no issues,” the document said.What the drivers had to sayIt became a waiting game throughout the rest of Thursday to see whether or not the race stewards would overturn Gasly’s penalties.His media session took place under a half hour before the initial hearings began, and he didn’t “want to say too much until the hearing is done and until the team has the conversation with the FIA.” But he did take the time to process the emotions and reset ahead of the first ‘normal’ track since Suzuka.The 30-year-old returned home and focused on training and spending time with his partner and his dog. Across the couple of days, Gasly did speak with those closest to him, including his family and the team, about the entire Monaco Grand Prix weekend.“I was already kind of trying to get my head around it and make sure that I come here 100 percent of myself to perform here,” Gasly said in Barcelona Thursday.He did admit that Sunday was “the hardest day I’ve ever had in F1 and in my sport career” from a sporting perspective. Gasly and Alpine put together a strongly-executed race, after staking its claim on ‘best of the rest’ in qualifying. He nailed the starts across the grand prix, and the consistency has been present from Alpine this season, as the team has scored points every race weekend now.“I know I’m someone quite emotional, but like dealing with all the emotion I felt after the race, for me was extremely hard and intense,” Gasly said. “If you drive a car that gives you the possibility to finish on the podium every other weekend, it’s likely different. You move on quickly, come here, fight for the podium, eventually to win. It’s a bit easier.“In my career, I’ve not been in a position to have that car yet underneath me, so I know when the chance is there — might be once a year, might be once every two years, might be two, three times a year — but once it’s there, I want to make sure that I’m the one grabbing it.”Gasly wasn’t the only driver penalized, however. For Ferrari, the penalty didn’t change much given how far ahead Hamilton was to third place, but there’s Mercedes and Russell, who faced a double whammy penalty.Russell (left) was also penalised (Joe Portlock/Getty Images)He incorrectly served his initial five-second penalty and was hit with a drive-though penalty that tumbled him out of points contention. The Briton revealed Thursday in Barcelona that he hasn’t looked for an explanation, given the incident is now in the past.“There is nothing I can do now, unlike Pierre, for example, who can maybe get his result back,” Russell explained. “It was kind of why I was pleading with the FIA in the red flag to not serve that drive-through penalty, and to at least penalize me after the race if they feel it was justifiable, because once you serve the penalty, there’s no turning back.”And then there’s McLaren, who had Piastri serve his penalty in-race as well. The Australian driver said Thursday that he felt it was obvious during the race that “there was something weird going on” given the sheer number of pit lane speeding infringements. Sometimes there’s one or two, but there were six on Sunday.“It’s a shame because it’s obviously impacted the result of the race for one way or another,” Piastri said. “I got a penalty, and if I didn’t have that penalty to serve, I wouldn’t have pitted again. They can’t change the result now, because so many decisions were made in the race based off the penalties that were given.“But that kind of thing shouldn’t happen in Formula 1.”