Piastri 'pretty mind-blown' by overturned penalty

Piastri 'pretty mind-blown' by overturned penaltyImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, With Pierre Gasly's third place reinstated, Oscar Piastri moves back level on 58 points with McLaren team-mate Lando Norris in the drivers' championshipByAndrew BensonF1 CorrespondentPublished10 minutes ago3 CommentsMcLaren's Oscar Piastri said he was "pretty mind-blown" about the decision to overturn Pierre Gasly's penalty for pit-lane speeding in the Monaco Grand Prix.Gasly was returned to third place in the race after initially being dropped to seventh following a successful appeal by his Alpine team.But the stewards' verdict revealed an error with measuring the pit-lane speed limit. This affected a number of other drivers, who were also penalised."I'm pretty mind-blown by the decision," Piastri said, "because how you can reverse a decision that was ultimately wrong, but when other people have been penalised for the same thing and served a penalty in the race, how you can then change one penalty, knowing that probably five or six other races have been impacted by that, is astonishing."What happened and how?Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, George Russell was given a drive-through penalty for failing to properly serve his pit-lane speeding penaltyGasly and Piastri were two of five drivers penalised for breaking the pit-lane speed limit. The others were Mercedes' George Russell, Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton and Gasly's team-mate Franco Colapinto.All but one of the penalties was for going 0.1km/h over the speed limit; one of Gasly's was for a 0.4km/h transgression.Russell ended up being demoted to 12th place from third after picking up a drive-through penalty, a punishment for not correctly serving his speeding punishment at a pit stop. That cost him 15 points in his title fight with team-mate Kimi Antonelli, who won the race.The Briton urged stewards during a red-flag period not to imp...