The move followed confirmation from the FIA that both of Gasly’s five-second pit lane speeding penalties had been removed after Alpine’s successful right of review.
Gasly crossed the line third in Monte Carlo before being pushed down to seventh in the final classification when two pit lane speeding penalties were added to his race time.
Alpine challenged the penalties after the race, maintaining that its data showed Gasly had stayed within the 60km/h pit lane limit.
The team first had to prove it had new and relevant evidence, with stewards accepting the review request on Thursday before reconsidering the penalties in a second hearing on Friday.
That decision put Gasly back on the podium, while Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar was moved back to fourth after briefly inheriting third place.
Oscar Piastri was also affected, with the McLaren driver dropping to fifth in the revised result after initially being classified fourth.
McLaren’s interest in the case was heightened by Piastri having also been penalised for pit lane speeding during the race.
However, Piastri had already served his five-second penalty during a pit stop, leaving McLaren in a different position to Alpine once the race had continued.
The notices lodged by McLaren and Red Bull do not mean either team is certain to proceed with a formal appeal.
Instead, they preserve their right to challenge the decision while both teams assess whether to take the matter further, with each having 96 hours to decide whether to proceed.
The revised classification currently leaves Gasly third, ahead of Hadjar, Piastri, Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad.
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