Alpine lament 'unfortunate situation' despite Gasly's restored P3 at Monaco GP

Gasly was one of five drivers to receive such a penalty, including Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, but saw Alpine, the only team not to serve their penalties during the race, saw their Right of Review approved after it was proved that the distance used in calculating the official timing and pit-lane speed was "inaccurate and overestimated the speed" the Frenchman was going.

Speaking to media, including GPblog, Nielsen said that while it was nice to have the P3 officially in the history books, it was a shame that Gasly and the team could not celebrate the podium properly on the streets of Monte Carlo. He said: "Honestly, absolutely… if I could trade, I'd have that podium moment over the points.

When asked by GPblog whether he agreed it was a strange situation that only Alpine have been able to see their result changed, Nielsen responded: "Well I think we would have still done what we did because we wanted to understand it. We have very accurate on-car data and we've all incurred pit lane speeding before and when you incur it, most of the time we see it in our own data before the FIA even tell us and sometimes they tell us and we look and see it.

On other team's decision not to submit a Right to Review, Nielsen said: "Well, I mean, it was a decision for them to make. I can't speak for how they did it. And maybe we were fortunate enough that we weren't the first to get it. but we'd already served our pit stop. So yeah, you can't unpick that.