P1 with Matt and Tommy - BONUS: Pierre Gasly's Monaco podium has been restored!

Episode Date: June 12, 2026

We've got some breaking news - bigger than Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari, bigger than any Max Verstappen rumour... Pierre Gasly's been given his Monaco podium back! We react to a bizarre process that's unveiled a baffling error from F1 and wonder what the other penalised drivers must be thinking. Our brand new live show 'Super Podding' is coming to the UK and Amsterdam this autumn! Get your tickets here: http:/tix.to/p1liveSign up to our Patreon for just $5 a month! You'll get access to every P1 episode ad-free, extended versions of every 2026 race review, early access to tickets & merch, and access to our Discord server where you can chat with us and other F1 fans! Click here to sign up now: http://patreon.com/mattp1tommyFollow us on socials! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube and TikTokP1 with Matt and Tommy is the world's biggest F1 podcast. Subscribe for new podcasts around every single race throughout the 2026 Formula 1 season! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Big One podcast with Matt and Tommy. Emergency Edition! The most emergency emergencies of Formula One news. Something that I cannot believe after the Monaco this has actually happened. But Pierre Casley has got his Monaco podium. Now, of course, fantastic news for Gasly to score lots of points to essentially get the trophy. But the one thing that he wanted that he didn't get was to stand on. the podium so I kind of feel a little bit sad for him at the same time.

True. Yeah, that would have been absolutely epic. Of course, you say it's the breaking news of all breaking news and it is because, you know, who cares about Lewis Hamilton going to Ferrari or Maxis Stappen potentially going to Mercedes? You know, this is, this is affecting our predictions championship and that is, you know, the biggest thing that matters in Formula One, of course. The family predictions. The family predictions, even more important. No, less important. It's the constructors, mate. No one cares. So, look, to get you all up to speed, Gasly's been reinstated into P3. The stewards have rescinded both of the five second penalties imposed on Pierre Gasley

for the speeding in the pit lane incidents. Now, the process of this was that because Gasley had not served his five second penalties, it had a right to review. We will talk about everybody else that had a penalty and served it shortly. Yeah. But this opened up an opportunity. for Alpine to question it. And I, and I, fair enough, right, because I'd seen on boards, I've seen the telemetry and

things to show, I think, especially the second Ghazley penalty, where he was cruising down the pit lane at what looked like 50 kilometres an hour when the limit is 60, supposedly. It's sort of the same, yeah. And, you know, nowhere near the essential speed limit and still got a penalty for that one. So Alpine, they basically protested. They brought new evidence, which is something that they have to do in order to protest something that's been adjudicated during the race. And it was deemed admissible, which was then taken to the review hearing, which I will now tell you. So during Thursday's right of review hearing, F1's timekeeper, FOM, admitted there had been an error with the distance measurement in the pit lane from which speeds are taken with the loop at pit entry where all six drivers were found to be speeding.

turning out to be 77 centimetres shorter than expected, causing average speeds to be overreported. Wow. What an absolutely enormous mistake that is. Did I not say on the podcast that there was a moment where Etten Senna crashed in like the 80s and he said, no, 100% the barrier must have been moved. And I said it was something similar to that where all these drivers must be doing like, they know exactly where to do. They do all their practices.

Everything in Formula One is to the millimeter and everything like that. And I said, surely there's some error here, and that's exactly what's happened. And no wonder, you know, they're so adamant about it. Because I watched the very same clip as you did. I'm sure other people have seen it listening to this, where normally when you get a pit lane speeding penalty, it's a track like a Monza or something, and you're locking up, you're going deep on the brakes. You've maybe not slowed down enough. but it was quite clear that he was, I think, very, very cautious.

You can see that his pit limit is on well before the line. He's slowed down. He's being coached throughout as well. He is, yeah, because I think there was talk about, you know, cutting and being very careful. So for them to, of course, it's a podium for Alpine, which is massive. So, of course, they were going to do everything they could anyway. But it was quite clear that, you know, they were doing everything to make sure it happened. and really truly believe that this was a mistake.

And wow, I mean, it doesn't, it takes Formula One a lot to admit that they've made a mistake. And here we are that they have. And a result has been changed, which I'm sure a lot of people will be surprised about because, you know, we don't tend to normally see that, particularly when it's such a like a big moment, like a podium finish as well. You do say, you know, it takes a lot for FOM to admit that they did wrong. No, it takes someone to literally go to a hearing in order for them to admit they've done wrong. Like, are you telling me they would have come out with this voluntarily if there hadn't been a proper team statement to say, look, we're going to appeal this?

So the big question now is what the others must be thinking. So the penalties, and forgive me if I've missed any out, but I believe this is all the ones that got speeding in the pit lane penalties. Hamilton, who served his five seconds. Russell, who I think will be the most peaved of all, because he got five seconds, and then a drive-through due to his team not serving the penalty correctly. Piastri got five seconds, but served it, and so did Colapinto. That's a lot of people to be caught out with penalties. Of course, Hamilton, it didn't affect.

Didn't affect, no. Because Charlotte Clare was made to serve exactly the same penalty. Russell, of course, it affected massively, but not necessarily the five seconds. That would have been fine. I don't think that would have actually affected his race, but the domino effect that that caused with his drive-thru, of course, massively impacted him. Piastri, I don't believe that it affected him either, if I'm not mistaken, and then colopinto as well. But like, overall, the big talking point has to be George Russell.

Yeah. Penny for his thoughts. I'm sure we'll get a, he'll be asked probably by all the media now. and Russell has been you know extremely vocal about his luck this year or lack of and how he believes you know he said many things about oh you know the gods don't want me to win this championship and things like that and obviously you had the the DNF in in Canada

when he was leading the race and then Monaco went horrendously bad for him I feel like I'm right in saying and I've seen a lot and this is what his fans were kind of mentioning as well that George was kind of adamant about just going to the line, getting the penalty and everything done afterwards and then seeing

what happened if they could protest it. So I think he's going to be even more annoyed now seeing another team have fought their driver's position to the point where they're going to the courts and things and a hearing with Formula One to make it happen.

And Russell wanted to do exactly this and stay out. I don't care about the penalty. We'll drive to the line and then we'll, I'm going to finish last anyway. So we might as well get the time penalty at the end of the race. If I get disqualified, whatever, and we'll, you know, go through it afterwards. And they didn't do that. And now he's got to witness a driver that did do that, or I didn't serve it, get his, get his time back because it was a mistake. So he must be absolutely fuming right now because had

that not happened, he's probably finishing the race in second or third. I'm just still completely baffled that this even exists as a mistake. You know, this is not a five or ten centimetre mistake. 77 metres. Meters? Centim metres. 77 centimeters, which is, you know, a big old measurement. So yeah, of everyone that's coming out of this, the FIA, you know, really have to look at what on earth happened here and just seems like carelessness on their part to not check things ahead of the weekend. Now, you mentioned about drivers taking the penalties during the race and not, and you know, the wonder is, you know, does this open a can of worms? For me, I think that maybe a couple of worms slip out of the can, but not all of them, because a lot of the time

it makes sense for teams and drivers to serve their penalties during the race because you never know later on there might be a safety car that that changes the race, backs the pack back up, and things like that. With Monaco obviously it's such a unique situation where you're not, you're not gaining anything. You can't pass, right? So there's no real gain from serving the penalty, although still teams are kind of used to that being the way to go because, well, what else are we going to do? We just have the five seconds at the end. So every other racetrack, I think, You know, if it's, you know, collisions on track, so on and so forth, it usually is a reasonable slam dunk unless teams have, you know,

extra evidence to show, which they never usually do. Whenever they've sort of questioned or appealed certain things, claiming they have more evidence, they usually get turned away, especially when it's, yeah, like sort of wheel to wheel action or whatever. But for this one, I think it's such a unique experience moment for the sport that I don't think it will really change the way teams go about. racing and holding all these penalties to the end of the race, because a lot of the time, as I mentioned, there is something to be gained, just not around Monaco.

Yeah, for sure. It is such a bizarre incident and one that is such a sign of protests that, I think, you know, say someone like Ghazley, he knew and everyone knew that everyone was getting penalties. So in that mind, you're kind of already thinking, this can't be my fault, or at least there's something unusual going on here. Whereas I doubt, famous last words when it happens in Spain, but we see someone taking their front wing off in a collision. They feel like they've been hard done by because they don't think it's their fault or it's a 50-50 incident

and then going, actually, no, I'm not serving my penalty because I'm now going to go to the stewards and ask about it at the end and say, well, actually, this happened. I can't see that. And if they did, I think the FIA and Formula One would have a dim view on it and start to maybe clamp down even more. Or of course, you know, you're not serving penalties.

they could change things there. But I don't see it happening or opening a kind of worm simply because it is just such a bizarre incident, one that we've never seen before, that I can certainly remember in Formula One where a pit lane was shorter than they remembered and because of the unique way that speed is done over distance. So, yeah, I don't think this is going to cause a mess

other than probably George Russell, no fuming and being very upset by it. Another guy to mention is probably Hadjar, of course, who's lost a podium at Monaco, which is, of course, a fantastic achievement. Indeed, yeah, for Hadjar, he's got the opposite of Gasley, where he loses everything,

bar the experience of actually being on the Monaco podium, and that's something, I'm sure, that will live with him for the rest of his life. Of course, he'll have lots of success for it. He'll be hoping for the rest of his career as well. But yeah, so shame for Hadjar. It's not like he loses a huge amount, goes down by one position, still gets a lot of points.

And yeah, he'll lose his Monaco trophy, but he's driving for Red Bull. So you'd hope that he'd be able to get more trophies in the future. But yeah, sad for him, because you could tell that meant quite a bit to him. Tommy, your dad had a generational prediction for Monaco that Gasly would be on the podium. It was cruelly taken away from him with two five-second penalties that were due to speeding in the pit lane, which wasn't speeding, we're now going to call him to let him know. Please pick up. Please pick up.

If he might not know. He genuinely doesn't, he might not actually know because it's just happened. He's only come up 20 minutes ago unless he is literally on. Come on, come on, please. Hello. Hi, Dad. Hi, Freddy. How are you?

I've got some breaking news for you. Have you heard? Gazzley has got third place. Yeah. How does it feel to have the greatest prediction? addiction in P1 podcast history. Formula One history? Formula One history, maybe.

Share us your thoughts. We're recording right now. Share us your thoughts. You're recording. I think that's absolutely amazing. I saw the thing that it was, the challenge had been made and was going to be taken further. And yeah, he's been reinstated

as of about five minutes ago. I was trying to work to take it both five second penalties Yeah, it was both, yeah I love how your mum sounds more excited than his dad does Somebody else that had a five second penalty Is now third instead

No, he's got it He's done it So do I get one point Well Because I got half a point for being so So good Oh here we go I can predicting it

And it was very generous of Matt and the family To give me half a point even though he didn't officially finish third. Right. We will discuss that. Surely that's double points. Okay, my dad wants double points.

Thanks, Dad. All right, we're going to continue with the podcast, but... Oh, sorry. It's all right, Dad. I'll give you a call back afterwards and we'll have a catch up. Well done, Dad. Cheers, Fred. Bye.

what a prediction he wants double points and what i have to say to that is similarly to hamilton russell piastri colopinto all the five second penalties during the race that was served and done the half a point was served okay we've moved on we've moved on oh how dare you no it's been overstated the the p1 right to review from the bellingham's has been issues now and it's now open to the comment. No, no, yeah, fair enough. Of course it's a full point. I mean, double points, similarly to this overruling of the penalties, you know, if I give double points for this one, we're opening up a can of worms here. However, oh God, am I going to regret this?

It's so good. It's so good. It's so good. Yeah, I laughed. I think, yeah. All right, double points. Double points. Well done. You know it's good when you the most competitive person I know on this planet. I think that shows great. I think that shows great. Well done, Dean. Well done Bellingham's.

And if Fernando Alonzo is on the podium this weekend, I'm taking five points for my dad even though he retracted it. Well, there we go. A bit of a, yeah, another emergency podcast. Hope you enjoyed it.

We had to jump on this because I think it deserved a chat about it. Congratulations to your dad again, Tommy. Well done. Hope he's happy with double points because I certainly am not but it was yeah fully deserved what a prediction the greatest prediction we've ever seen and I you know it might be up there as one of the greatest predictions ever full stop in the history of Formula One so well done to Dean Tommy what

your final thoughts final thoughts are what a crazy just if Monaco wasn't crazy enough this year we're still talking about it on the Friday of the next race still overturning decisions and stuff. One of the most bonkers races I've seen. But yeah, now to lock in to the Barcelona-Catholonia Grand Prix and see some on-track action today,

which is crazy because it's weird to be talking about the previous race so late on. Indeed, insane drama. Until free practice one starts. Yeah. So there you go. Thanks everybody. See you soon.

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