FIA confirm hearing date for Alpine appeal against Gasly Monaco penalties

Pierre Gasly was demoted from third at the chequered flag to seventh in the final Monaco GP classication after two five-second pit-lane speeding penalties were applied; watch every session of the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix from this Friday, live on Sky Sports F1

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>Alpine's appeal against pit-lane speeding penalties given to Pierre Gasly during the Monaco Grand Prix will be heard on Thursday, the FIA has confirmed.

>Gasly was among an unusually large number of drivers to be penalised for exceeding the 60 kilometre per hour pit-lane speed limit in Monaco, with two separate infringements for the same offence by the Frenchman resulting in a pair of five-second penalties that dropped him from third at the chequered flag to seventh in the final classification.

>Gasly was among several penalised drivers, along with the likes of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, to question the penalties after the race, saying he was "heartbroken" and urged the FIA to investigate the situation.

>Alpine then later on Sunday officially requested a right of review, which the FIA has now confirmed will be heard virtually by the Monaco stewards at 12pm UK time on Thursday.

>The documents released by the FIA on Tuesday confirmed that Alpine have only requested a right of review on the two penalties given to Gasly, and not the ones applied to drivers from other teams.

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>F1 right of review hearings are held in two parts, with the appealing party first required to present "a significant and relevant new element which was unavailable to the party seeking the review at the time of the decision concerned."

>If the stewards agree that such a new element has been presented, a further hearing will be held to determine whether the original decision should be altered.

>It seems highly unlikely that the stewards would reinstate Gasly to third place in this scenario, given that his situation would appear to be the same as those of the other drivers who were penalised, and something of a mess would be created by undoing all the penalties that were served during the race.

>It has been suggested in the aftermath of the race that the penalties were being caused by the line some drivers were taking on their way into the pits, with a tighter path at the entry potentially shortening the amount of time they were in the pit lane and resulting in a higher average speed.

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>While Gasly complained after the race that he had been "robbed" of a podium, he was only running in third at the chequered flag due to the events that stemmed from Russell being given the same penalty.

>Mercedes botched an attempt to serve Russell's initial penalty by touching his car before the five seconds had elapsed, which led to a further more severe drive-through penalty for the Brit that dropped him from third to outside the points in the closing stages.

>Gasly was highly emotional after the race, first appearing to celebrate a podium he knew was being taken away from him by fist-pumping on his in-lap after the chequered flag, and then being highly critical of the decisions after the race.

>Speaking to Sky Sports F1 after his demotion, Gasly said: "Right now honestly I'm just heartbroken. I don't have the words. I have too much emotion to process. I just can't get my head around what happened. It just doesn't sound fair.

>"Triple checking with the team they set the right speed in the car. On both occasions, I've put the pit limiter way before the line.

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>"We're all working so hard for these moments. The 10 years I do this, 10 years I've tried to grab every opportunity, I have five podiums, which is nothing in my career. And we pass the road in third position in front of all the French people and it gets taken away from us. Right now, I just don't know what to say.

>"I hope they can have a look into it and just make the right decisions. As I say it from our side, I know I haven't done anything wrong and I was 200 per cent sure I was before the line. The team set the right speed from what they said, and hopefully they can investigate it.

>"But it won't give me that moment. I've just been watching the podium and I definitely feel I should have been up there. The team will obviously fight it. It's nine points that we're losing, a podium. I have no idea."

>Russell, who ultimately suffered most from the situation, said that "clearly there's a problem in the software."

>While Hamilton, who held onto second place despite the penalty, insisted that he and the other penalised drivers "probably weren't really speeding."

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