Penalty Bombshell As Shock Update Issued; Hamilton Surprised At FIA Decision On Red Bull

If only F1 had an official timekeeper. Oh wait. Never mind.

The whole issue is us, we the paying public, still watching this now fake sport.

It's just a mobster system perpetrated by Sulayem, that's even trying to put himself as FIA president for life, like it was an arabic emirate.

I feel so bad for the drivers, at least for those who really want to race clean and fair: that's not the right place.

If they changed the race results, that's totally unfair to the drivers who didn't cut the corner!!

Completely Gasley's fault, don't cut corners

F1 = a total farce.

As ever short & sweet no bull! How refreshing. Well done James, keep it up.

But... The person who lost out the most with time penalties was LeClerc, stacking behind Hamilton, his brakes cooling and then crashing, how can the FIA undo a crash!

It was bleeding obvious that the speeding penalties were nonsense, the solution would be a 5% margin or a 1 km/h allowance...absolute nonsense what was going on...

If other sports had the outcome in limbo for DAYS after its conclusion, all those sports would simply go away. …hmmm. FIA - get your shit together, teams/drivers - shit happens, and maybe it happens to you, the whole lot of em - do your dirty laundry in private and not in front of the fans. Bunch of incompetents and babies, leaving the many professionals, that act and behave as responsible adults unaccounted for as they are being drowned out by the aforementioned.

Had enough of the F1 ballshit,best to leave watching it till two weeks after race finishes and then get final result 😮😮

How much anguish could have been avoided by simply have a one kph 'buffer' on the pit lane speed trap.
(Don't tell the teams you have put it there.)

6 or 7? drivers got a speeding penalty in error, Gasly got his penalty after the race, easy fix. But George who didn't serve the penalty would then have his 20 seconds taken away, which is also an easy fix.

However what of the other drivers who did serve? If Oscar didn't serve he may have been third after the red flag and could have finished third, there is also the same issue down the line, how many mid race drivers would have been in a different position if they didn't serve a penalty?

All together now. The FIA has one purpose. The destruction of F1. You need to be blind not to see it. They are purposely destroying this once great motor sport.

The FIA are completely Ruining this Sport what a complete Stuff up

@FIA @formula1 when was the speed detector last calibrated. harsh penalties for someone barely over by a split thousand or split hundred of a kph . wheres the tolerence factor ! i would want to know this.

The pit lane white lines in Monaco deviated quite a bit from previous races and the drivers cutting the corner were given speeding penalties. This is totally on the stewards and whomever painted the white lines the way they did.

The fact that Alpine took the matter up with the F.I.A then they should receive the benefit of the findings in Gasly's favour. Gasly deserves 3rd place back, not good for Hadjar, but i think this would be fair.

FIA decision makers are bigots. The finest time pieces have tolerances, measuring equipment have tolerances, toolmakers making multi thousand dollar press tools have tolerances.

Re-run the race... (not likely...)

Apply a strong penalty now, to the timekeeper, who should be looking for a new job.

It appears that Mercedes has hacked the engine control telemetry for the other key teams thus causing failures or downgraded performance for competitors when needed for Mercedes to win.

Just like when a rugby ref makes a bad decision Eg costing New Zealand the last World Cup when an infringement was picked up after too many phases of play to count so a try was disallowed, game/race results should not be changed after the fact. Learn from the error and don’t repeat it. Maybe some cash to the team to allow for their loss of points and therefore income.

Tens of millions will be saved once they go back to V8’s and gasoline and dumping the batteries and regin. Can we start in 2028?

"Best engine" is irrelevant...
"Best package" (Engine, transmission, chassis, driver, pit crew, strategy etc.) wins races.
"Most consistent package" often wins championships, without having the "Best" anything.

Nobody cares anymore about F1 and the whinging divas. It's a joke.

The person who changes something to "ensure the scenario is never repeated" is a fool... if they bet their house on it succeeding, they should buy a tent as a backup home! 😮

There is NO perfect answer. If you apply the time penalty during the race, you cannot fairly 'undo' it later. For instance, if you undo the penalty, you may put the car in front of one that has 'eased off' because no cars are close behind it.
If you apply the penalty after the race, you can 'undo' it later... BUT... if you do this the car is out of position during the race, possibly competing for the lead, and could interfere with a car that is a genuine contender for points, and maybe a podium.
I would not like to be the person who justifies their decision in the Court of Enquiry! 😮

Alpine won the review because Ferrari didn’t appeal.
If Ferrari appeal, then no review.
We all know why.
LH was the first to get that penalty.

Points = millions of dollars/euros, so just shrugging their shoulders is pathetic

They need to let Gasley have a podium presentation. Or give everyone points....

FFS, stop asking for subscription! Just create good content, and it'll happen.

Wow the FIA/FOM is burning F1's reputation to the ground at amazing speed.
Between the 50/50 debacle, they can't even get the basic timing loops right at Monaco, the ADUO seems to have been gamed and meanwhile in the background Sulayem is actively seeking to change the rules to install himself as supreme leader for life. Wow. Impressive cluster.

Most powerful ICE doesn’t mean most powerful combined powertrain. What a laff.

There was a lot of shall we say 'mockery' last year and early 2026 about Ford coming in as an engine. Now it appears their ICE may be the best in the sport, based I guess on the dyno measurements. I'm hearing little from those critics now... effin crickets. 🦗
Nobody's claiming the Red Bull package is fast enough, but I still detect a deafening silence.

My preference for Indy car grows with each new F1 clown show. Sure, it's an open wheel spec series but most of the car tweaks between F1 cars are nearly invisible anyway.

This sport is over for the near future as there is actually no need to watch this debacle anymore

What a shambles, the points should be removed from that race for everybody

And the FIA joke continues.

Red Bull’s got the best worst engine

Impossible to rectify the penalties now. Too complicated to remove the correct time given the safety cars, red flags, and restarts.

Instead of teams getting fines, how about the teams that were penalized fining the FIA for a technical failure and being allowed to spend the fine over the cost cap limit.

They were speeding nobody else was !

Good update James

Is this a SPORT?

The problem with this is that one can never know how the race would have unfolded had the penalties not been given. In other words, it 'looks' like Gasly would have come in third. But is that how it would, actually, have turned out?
If it were a single isolated incident, three laps before the end of the race it might be legit to change the race result. But it is a series of events across, nearly, the whole race distance. Far too complex to legitimately change the results. So...
Pierre gets the dirty end of the stick (so to speak)!
Thank you, James!

Does Lewis get his time back.

Everyone needs to remember back to just before Pre season testing & there was already rumours then that the Redbull was the most powerful engine on the grid even in front of Mercedes. The problem is most powerful doesn’t mean most drivable add to this a less efficient electrical energy recovery/recharge system plus a chassis and aero philosophy that’s is not as strong as Mercedes & Ferrari and you get the situation Redbull are in.
Given the rumblings from pre season onwards it should be no surprise Redbull actually do have the most powerful engine, it’s just lacking in every other department.

There is no way to go back and fix this, given the number that served the penalties during the race. They are just going to have to accept this one, and hope the people running this clown show don't blow it like this again. Great job James!