Sergio Pérez lost his Monaco Grand Prix points finish after stewards handed him a post-race 10-second time penalty for a false start, dropping him to the back of the field and elevating Fernando Alonso into 10th place. That change gave Aston Martin its first point of the 2026 season and rewrote the final classification after the race was already over.
The result mattered because the Monaco order had been settled on track before the review changed it. Kimi Antonelli had won the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton behind him, but the revised sheet is what counted in the end after the penalty was applied. RacingNews365 described the standings as adjusted after the stewards’ decision, which moved the final points-paying position out of Perez’s hands and into Alonso’s.
That was not the only call the stewards had to make. Isack Hadjar kept his maiden Red Bull podium after officials took no further action over an alleged red-flag infringement, leaving one podium result intact even as Perez’s points finish disappeared. The contrast underlined how much of Monaco turned on post-race scrutiny rather than the checkered flag alone.
For Aston Martin, the gain was immediate and simple: Alonso’s promotion delivered the team’s first point of the 2026 season. For Perez, it was the opposite, a clean finish wiped away by a false start penalty that left him at the rear of the classification. The open question now is whether there will be any further challenge to the revised order, but for the moment Monaco stands with Alonso in the points and Perez out of them.
