Overview
- After the Mexico City Grand Prix the FIA opened investigations using telemetry, in-car video, timing and marshalling data and concluded Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto failed to slow enough for yellow flags.
- Gasly was given a stop-and-go penalty converted to a 30-second time addition and two licence penalty points, which dropped him to 17th in the final standings.
- Colapinto received a 10-second time penalty and one licence point, demoting him to 15th and costing Alpine the points they had briefly held on the track.
- The revised classification promoted other drivers into the points, including Ryo Hirakawa who scored on his surprise Haas debut and moved Liam Lawson, Gabriel Bortoleto and Isack Hadjar up the order.
- The ruling changes the constructors fight by shifting points away from Alpine toward rivals and highlights how stewards now routinely use detailed telemetry and video to enforce yellow-flag rules.