Alpine have requested a Right of Review from F1’s governing body, the FIA, following the Monaco Grand Prix, where Pierre Gasly fell out of the podium positions due to a pair of pit lane speeding penalties.
In a dramatic race around the streets of the Principality, impacted by Safety Cars and a red flag, Gasly progressed from ninth on the grid to fourth, which became third when Mercedes’ George Russell served a late drive-through.
However, Gasly was hit with sanctions of his own after the chequered flag, with the French racer deemed to have exceeded the pit lane speed limit on two occasions – a combined 10-second penalty dropping him down the order to seventh.
“After the result of today’s Monaco Grand Prix, BWT Alpine Formula 1 Team can confirm it has requested a Right of Review from the FIA following the penalties applied for pit lane speeding,” read a brief statement from Alpine post-race.
Giving his own reaction in the media pen, Gasly said: “Right now, I’m just heartbroken. I don’t know what to say. I don’t want to be speaking right now.
“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.”
Asked about taking positives from his and Alpine’s performance this weekend, he added: “It’s been 10 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.”
