Alpine fell to sixth after Mexico City penalty losses
NXTbets Pro | Published On: November 2, 2026
Alpine loses points
Alpine left Mexico City with a clear hit to its championship position after both of its drivers were penalized out of the points and the team lost all five points it had earned from the race. The stewards ruled that neither Franco Colapinto nor Pierre Gasly had slowed sufficiently under yellow flags, and that decision reshaped the final result long after the checkered flag. Colapinto and Gasly had both crossed the line inside the points, but each penalty pushed them deep down the order and wiped out Alpine’s return from the Grand Prix. That left the team with a costly Sunday and a standings drop that mattered far beyond one race weekend. Alpine slid to sixth in the constructors’ standings on 69 points, a move that tightened the pressure on a team that had done enough on track to score but could not keep any of the reward once the post-race review was complete. The outcome also showed how quickly a race can change once officials examine flag procedures, because the original finishing positions were never the final word.
Colapinto and Gasly
Colapinto took the first blow. He had finished eighth before the penalty verdict, then dropped to 15th after officials gave him 10 seconds for failing to slow enough under a single waved yellow flag. That ruling erased the points he had banked on the road and turned a points finish into a result outside the scoring places. Gasly’s case cost even more. He originally placed 10th, but stewards handed him a stop-and-go penalty that was converted into 30 seconds after a double yellow flag breach, and that pushed him to 17th. The pair’s penalties carried the same basic theme, because officials said both drivers had not slowed enough in the flagged zone, but the penalties were applied in different forms and with different consequences. Colapinto’s change was immediate and severe enough to remove him from the points altogether. Gasly’s penalty was heavier in time and moved him further back than Colapinto.
Race order shifts
The Alpine penalties also changed the shape of the points table behind the leaders. Isack Hadjar moved up to ninth, Gabriel Bortoleto advanced to eighth and Liam Lawson climbed to seventh as the revised order settled in. Ryo Hirakawa benefited too, moving to 10th and collecting a point on his Formula 1 debut. Those promotions mattered because they turned one set of finishes into another and gave several drivers a payoff from the post-race review. The reshuffle was not limited to Alpine’s drivers either. Oscar Piastri received a separate 10-second penalty for his clash with Arvid Lindblad and dropped out of the points as well. That added another layer to a race that kept changing after the flag, with penalties, revised classifications and points moving around before the final order was locked in. The result was a cleaner picture of who gained ground and who gave it back, but it came only after officials applied the penalties and moved the field around. Alpine, meanwhile, took the biggest hit from the final accounting.
