@gaIaxygang@sainzifyy You're correct, Alex didn't complete 90% of the race distance. Alex needed to have completed 60 laps to be classified.
NC: Not Classified
For those wondering why:
Kimi completed 90% of the race distance so the penalty was applied here.
The same thing happened when Lando didn't finish the race in Canada last year.
Monaco GP: Pit Lane Penalties, Precedence and Podiums 👉
The technical bit, because the detail is the story:
📏 Pit lane speed is never read off the car. It's the official loop-to-loop distance divided by crossing time, accurate to 1 cm and 1 ms. Monaco's first zone was set at 2692 cm; FOM's post-event LIDAR scan found the shortest driveable line was 2615 cm. Those 77 cm inflate reported speed by ~1.7 km/h.
⏱️ Teams tune the PLSL against the FIA's published distances to sit within 0.1 km/h of the limit. Wrong distance in, whole field tipped over together: 5 of 6 reports read exactly 60.1 km/h. Gasly's corrected averages: 58.7 and 58.8.
⚖️ His penalties were rescinded because all three conditions held: B1.6.3a names a limit but no measurement source, the official timekeeper disproved its own number, and his penalties were post-race time additions with a review filed inside Art 14's 96-hour window. Served penalties can't be touched — para 42, and Sainz's Zandvoort review proved it just last September.
🧑⚖️ Now McLaren and Red Bull have lodged notices of intention to appeal. Swipe for what they could argue, and the precedents that decided title fights before: Brazil 2003, Malaysia 1999, Jeddah 2023.
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BREAKING: Pierre Gasly has been reinstated into P3 for the Monaco Grand Prix
The Stewards have rescinded the two five-second penalties imposed on Pierre Gasly during the race for speeding in the pit lane
#F1
Robert Kolczak, driver of the Scandinavia Rally, has been disqualified for asking a steward if she wanted to see his genitals, and subsequently grabbing them.
"The driver did not know that the woman was a race steward."
wtf 🤦♂️
Hantavirus is giving me vibes that are not good. Reading between the lines, it tells me we need to prepare. Something bad is about to happen.
#Hantavirüs#herewegoagain
The Race challenged Stefano Domenicali on whether the agreed changes to the 2026 regulations will solve all of F1's problems.
His response? There are no problems: