Mercedes has formally asked the FIA to review the result of the Monaco Grand Prix.
The team submitted a Right of Review request to the governing body, following the same process Alpine used to overturn two penalties given to Pierre Gasly during the race. Alpine’s successful request moved Gasly from seventh to third in the revised classification.
McLaren and Red Bull previously gave notice of their intention to appeal the stewards’ decision to cancel Gasly’s penalties.
The race outcome is contested after the stewards acknowledged in their ruling on Gasly that some pit lane speeding penalties were issued incorrectly. They stated the error arose because the measured pit lane length used in the calculations was 77 metres shorter than the actual length.
RaceFans understands the stewards’ admission is one of the grounds Mercedes intends to use in its challenge, along with the reversal of Gasly’s penalties.
Five drivers were handed pit lane speeding penalties during the race, including Gasly, who received two, George Russell and McLaren driver Oscar Piastri.
Gasly did not serve either penalty during the race. Both were cancelled by the stewards following a hearing last Thursday.
Russell, by contrast, drove into his pit box after receiving a five-second penalty, which meant he was required to serve it during the race. Because the box stop did not satisfy the requirement, he was issued a more severe drive-through penalty, which must be served within three laps. When Russell served that penalty with seven laps remaining he dropped from third to 14th.
Piastri served his five-second time penalty during the race. In the revised classification, the removal of Gasly’s penalties pushed Piastri from fourth to fifth.
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said the team had consulted lawyers about the stewards’ decision to overturn Gasly’s penalty, though he expressed doubts about the chances of reversing the race result.
“Do we think that we realistically have a position, a chance of reverting the result? I don’t think so,” he said. “But we definitely have to give it a go if we see that there is a millimetre of chance to do so and bring him back to whatever it was – P4 [or] P3.”
Russell’s teammate Andrea Kimi Antonelli won the race.
The last two Right of Review requests by Formula 1 teams were successful. Before Alpine’s recent outcome, Williams succeeded in challenging Carlos Sainz Jnr’s penalty at last year’s Dutch Grand Prix. In Sainz’s case he had served the penalty during the race, so the stewards ruled it could not be overturned for classification purposes.
Previous Right of Review decisions
| Date of decision | Team | Event | Incident | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21/6/2019 | Ferrari | Canadian Grand Prix | Sebastian Vettel rejoined the track in an unsafe fashion | Failed |
| 5/7/2020 | Red Bull | Austrian Grand Prix | Lewis Hamilton failed to slow for yellow flags | Succeeded |
| 2/5/2021 | Alfa Romeo | Emilia Romagna Grand Prix | Kimi Räikkönen failed to re-establish the correct restart order | Failed |
| 29/7/2021 | Red Bull | British Grand Prix | Lewis Hamilton given a 10-second penalty for colliding with Max Verstappen (Red Bull sought harsher penalty) | Failed |
| 9/8/2021 | Aston Martin | Hungarian Grand Prix | Sebastian Vettel’s car was disqualified for being underweight | Failed |
| 19/11/2021 | Mercedes | Brazilian Grand Prix | Max Verstappen forced Lewis Hamilton off the track | Failed |
| 28/10/2022 | Alpine | United States Grand Prix | Haas submitted a protest against Fernando Alonso too late | Succeeded |
| 19/3/2023 | Aston Martin | Saudi Arabian Grand Prix | Fernando Alonso failed to serve a five-second time penalty correctly | Succeeded |
| 18/4/2023 | Ferrari | Australian Grand Prix | Carlos Sainz Jnr collided with Fernando Alonso | Failed |
| 2/7/2023 | McLaren | Canadian Grand Prix | Lando Norris penalised for “unsportsmanlike” driving | Failed |
| 9/11/2023 | Haas | United States Grand Prix | Track limits breaches | Failed |
| 5/5/2024 | Aston Martin | Chinese Grand Prix | Fernando Alonso collided with Carlos Sainz Jnr | Failed |
| 26/10/2024 | McLaren | United States Grand Prix | Lando Norris was penalised for overtaking Max Verstappen off the track | Failed |
| 13/9/2025 | Williams | Dutch Grand Prix | Carlos Sainz Jnr was penalised for colliding with Liam Lawson | Succeeded |
| 12/6/2026 | Alpine | Monaco Grand Prix | Pierre Gasly was given two pit lane speeding penalties | Succeeded |
| Mercedes | Monaco Grand Prix | George Russell was given a five-second time penalty followed by a drive-through for failing to serve it |
This article will be updated
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