The hearing has been set for 09:00 local time on Tuesday, 25 August at FIA headquarters at 8 place de la Concorde in Paris, the governing body confirmed. At the parties’ request, the session will run behind closed doors, with the ruling to be published as soon as possible afterwards.
The court date lands two days after the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, where McLaren is completing the upgrade package it started rolling out in Hungary. Lando Norris delivered the team’s first win of a difficult 2026 season at the Hungaroring, though the standings after that race still have him fifth, 91 points behind championship leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli, with Lewis Hamilton second.
The Monaco fault line
The dispute traces back to a pit-lane speed limit that turned out to be miscalculated. Gasly received two five-second penalties in Monaco for recorded speeds of 60.1 km/h and 60.4 km/h against a 60 km/h limit, dropping the Alpine driver from third across the line to seventh in the classification. When Formula One Management acknowledged an error in the timing loop calculations, Alpine successfully petitioned the stewards for a Right of Review and Gasly’s penalties were rescinded on 12 June.
The reversal restored Gasly to third and demoted Isack Hadjar from what would have been his maiden podium to fourth. Oscar Piastri, who had served an equivalent in-race penalty of his own for the same infringement, was reclassified fifth.
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That mismatch, one driver’s penalty scrubbed after the flag while others served theirs during the race with no route to appeal, is the crux of the case McLaren and Red Bull are taking to Paris.
What McLaren and Red Bull want
McLaren’s position is spelled out in the statement it published when it lodged its notification of appeal on 16 June.
“We believe this case raises important questions concerning sporting fairness, regulatory consistency and the integrity of competition.”
“The subsequent removal of penalties creates a situation in which some competitors are disadvantaged by having acted in accordance with the rules and the Stewards’ decisions. Such an outcome risks creating sporting inequity and undermining confidence in the consistent application of the FIA Sporting Regulations.”
Red Bull filed its own appeal on the same grounds, and the two cases have been rolled into a single hearing. Both teams are effectively asking the court to reimpose Gasly’s original penalties and undo the Monaco reclassification.
Piastri, who lost the most on paper, has been the sharpest voice in public.
“I am pretty mind-blown by the decision, because how can you reverse a decision that was ultimately wrong, but when other people have been penalised for the same thing, and served the penalty in the race?” the Australian told reporters, calling the reversal “astonishing”.
The classification swing
If the court reinstates the original penalties, Piastri would move from fifth back to fourth in Monaco and pick up two points, while Hadjar would jump from fourth to third and add three, taking a maiden podium in the bargain. Gasly, currently tenth on 42 points, would lose nine.
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The drivers’ title itself is beyond anyone touched by the case, but the constructors’ fight is not. McLaren sits third in the constructors’ standings on 220 points, 43 clear of Red Bull, and the Monaco swing feeds directly into their season-long battle for best-of-the-rest behind Mercedes and Ferrari.
The ICA’s decision is due after the Zandvoort weekend. By the time the paddock reaches Monza the following race, one of two Monaco classifications will stand as the official result.
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