Monaco Podium Dispute Goes to FIA Court in Paris
NXTbets Pro | Published On: August 19, 2026
FIA appeal hearing
The FIA International Court of Appeal will hear McLaren and Red Bull’s appeals Tuesday at FIA headquarters in Paris, two days after the Dutch Grand Prix. The case returns the Monaco Grand Prix podium dispute to the sport’s top appeals body after Alpine won its challenge to Pierre Gasly’s penalties and changed the result once already. McLaren and Red Bull want Gasly’s original two pit lane speeding penalties restored. They filed their appeals after Alpine successfully overturned the penalties, and both teams are asking the FIA to put the original Monaco order back in place.
The hearing gives the governing body another look at a race result that has already moved through one round of protest and one reversal. Gasly’s penalties came from the Monaco race, and Alpine argued them successfully. The rescinded penalties lifted Gasly back into third place and pushed the result into a new shape. That shift set off the next step, with McLaren and Red Bull taking their objections to the appeals court and pressing for the earlier penalties to stand.
Monaco podium reshuffle
Alpine’s challenge centered on Gasly’s two pit lane speeding penalties from Monaco. Once the FIA rescinded them, the finishing order changed immediately. Gasly went back to third. Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar dropped to fourth. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri dropped to fifth. The result turned a straightforward podium into a contested one, with the final classification no longer settled in the eyes of the teams involved.
That reshuffle sits at the heart of the appeal. McLaren and Red Bull are not just asking the court to review the penalties. They want the original sanctions restored, which would reverse the change Alpine won through its protest. The dispute gives the FIA a second chance to examine how the Monaco race was handled and whether the revised result should stand. Gasly’s restored third place is now the point of contention, and the hearing in Paris will decide whether that version of the result survives.
McLaren fairness case
McLaren’s appeal also raises a fairness issue. The team says other drivers served in-race penalties that could not be undone or appealed, including George Russell, Piastri, Lewis Hamilton and Franco Colapinto. That argument puts the Monaco case in a wider frame, one that looks at how penalties work once they are served during the race and the order starts to change. McLaren is using that point to support its push for Gasly’s original penalties to be reinstated.
Mercedes already withdrew its own appeal after Russell dropped from third to 12th because of a drive-through penalty for not properly serving a penalty during the race. That decision left the Monaco dispute in the hands of McLaren and Red Bull. Their filings keep the focus on Gasly, but the broader issue is clear. The teams are asking the FIA to weigh how one set of penalties was reversed after the race while other drivers carried out penalties that stayed on the books. The court in Paris now has to sort through those claims and decide whether the Monaco outcome should change again.
