Pierre Gasly awarded dream Monaco Grand Prix podium after stewards overturn penalty

[p]The Frenchman had finished third on ‌the track but dropped to seventh when the two ‌five-second penalties were applied after last Sunday's race finish.[/p][p]Formula 1 , responsible ‌for the timekeeping, admitted making a mistake with its measurements.[/p][p]Alpine, ‌which had sought a right of review, welcomed the decision in a statement and thanked Formula One Management and the governing FIA for ‌their transparency and cooperation.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/gasly-pierre/nqYFMBBf/"]Gasly[/a] had said on ⁠Sunday that he was ‌heartbroken by the penalties and "to have a lifelong dream of a Monaco ​podium taken away from me for reasons which I just cannot comprehend".[/p][embed guid="bfd8ba6d-ef3f-4a1c-b82c-1608699fead6" url="https://x.com/AlpineF1Team/status/2065378619724087440" social-type="twitter" /][p][b]The decision means Red Bull's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/hadjar-isack/8SAk38Ui/"]Isack ​Hadjar[/a], who had inherited third place and celebrated on the podium with Mercedes' winner [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/antonelli-andrea-kimi/ptGu0mT1/"]Kimi Antonelli[/a] and Ferrari's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/hamilton-lewis/tI5Vpe1h/"]Lewis Hamilton[/a], ⁠drops back to fourth. McLaren's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/piastri-oscar/MqKAIeUf/"]​Oscar Piastri[/a] moves down to fifth, with Racing Bulls' [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/lawson-liam/nap8RjeO/"]Liam Lawson[/a] sixth and teammate [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/lindblad-arvid/bgk1rl5a/"]Arvid Lindblad[/a] seventh.[/b][/p][p]The decision will taste particularly bitter for others who suffered similar time penalties for pitlane ‌speeding but did not seek a review, and for luckless Mercedes driver [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/russell-george/xxF56RaN/"]George Russell[/a], who was handed a drive-through penalty that left him out of the points.[/p][p]Russell told reporters on Thursday that he had pleaded for his penalty to be added post-race and said it would be a 'kick in the balls' if Gasly had his penalties overturned.[/p][p][b]"The stewards note 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," [/b]the officials said in a statement.[/p][p][b]"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.[/b][/p][p][b]"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."[/b][/p]