F1 Monaco Grand Prix result could be changed as FIA confirm official hearing

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Monaco Grand Prix result could be changed as FIA confirm official hearing

The hearing will start on Thursday in Barcelona

Graham Shaw Consultant Editor

Digital sports specialist running global brands for 30 years

Wednesday 10 June 2026 08:59 Updated: 10:23

The result of Sunday's 2026 F1 Monaco Grand Prix could yet be changed with the FIA scheduling an official hearing to kick off the review process into a controversial race.

After protests from French team Alpine, the stewards will hold a right to review hearing in Barcelona on Thursday (1pm local time, noon UK, 7am Eastern) into the penalties handed to 30-year-old driver Pierre Gasly.

Gasly finished a wild race in the principality in third place on the road, but was handed a pair of five-second penalties for speeding in the pitlane, which subsequently dropped him to seventh.

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The driver himself said he was "heartbroken" in the immediate aftermath and pleaded for the FIA to look into the matter again.

So what happens next?

Now it has been confirmed that Gasly and Alpine will get their right to review, but this is only the start of a two-part process. Thursday's hearing will decide if there is enough new evidence to reopen the case (and that evidence must be significant).

Should all four active stewards confirm that significant new evidence is present, a second part of the process will then reassess the penalties.

Could the result change?

The driver most at risk from this hearing process is another Frenchman, Red Bull's Isack Hadjar. He claimed that final spot on the podium thanks to Gasly's penalties.

Should those penalties be overturned, Gasly would return to P3 with Hadjar being relegated to P4 and reclaiming that podium position.

Pierre Gasly was given two five-second speeding penalties.

Speeding penalties galore at Monaco

Gasly's penalties were just the tip of the pitlane speeding iceberg on Sunday, with a total of drivers - including Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton - being handed penalties. So why was that?

There isn't a laser keeping track of every car's speed for every second of the time they're in the zone. At the timing lines etc, sure, but the best way to measure average speed is to measure the time it takes to get from one place to another and work it out from that.

That, in a nutshell, is what doomed George Russell, Gasly (twice), Franco Colapinto, Hamilton and Oscar Piastri.

The pitlane in Monaco can effectively be cut by a couple of meters, thanks to a little kink in the entrance. If you're going at your precisely dialled-in 60km/h and cut a couple of meters off your journey, you're going to look like you were slightly over the limit. All five drivers were pinged for officially being just 0.1km/h over the limit. The margins could not have been finer.

Current Monaco Grand Prix result

As of now, the result for Sunday's race (subject to potential change of course) looks like this:

F1 2026 Monaco Grand Prix Results
Position	Driver	Team	Time/Status
1	Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	-
2	Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	+6.271
3	Isack Hadjar	Red Bull	+23.394
4	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	+24.261
5	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	+26.553
6	Arvid Lindblad	Racing Bulls	+29.010
7	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	+30.369
8	Alex Albon	Williams	+33.413
9	Esteban Ocon	Haas	+37.140
10	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	+41.899
11	Gabriel Bortoleto	Audi	+42.748
12	George Russell	Mercedes	+43.353
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Audi	+44.102
14	Franco Colapinto	Alpine	+48.964
15	Sergio Perez	Cadillac	+49.153
16	Carlos Sainz	Williams	DNF
17	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	DNF
18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	DNF
19	Lando Norris	McLaren	DNF
20	Ollie Bearman	Haas	DNF
21	Valtteri Bottas	Cadillac	DNF
22	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	DNF

Fastest Lap: Kimi Antonelli [Mercedes] - 1:13.481 on lap 76.

Written by

Graham Shaw - Consultant Editor

Digital sports leader with 30 years of senior level experience running global brands. Built sportinglife.com to be a behemoth in the UK as well as being in charge of the Planet Sport network of sites including planetf1.com, football365.com, teamtalk.com and planetrugby.com. Then grew goal.com to be the world's biggest soccer website in 18 languages and 37 territories. Was GM of Portals for Perform Group (now DAZN) with overall responsibility for sportingnews.com, spox.de and voetbalzone.nl.

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