Pierre Gasly says Monaco Grand Prix trophy looks good at his home, Isack Hadjar happy he gave it back to a friend

Gasly crossed the line third in Monaco but was hit by two five-second penalties for pit lane speeding, an offense that was bizarrely recurrent during the race in the municipality, signaling something was off.

Hadjar inherited third place, but Alpine appealed the decision and proved Formula One Management and the FIA got their ruling wrong, and Gasly was reinstated in third.

Following that decision, Mercedes briefly challenged the penalties George Russell received for speeding in the pit lane and for not serving that penalty when he pitted but then decided to drop their case.

However, Red Bull Racing and McLaren were not happy with Gasly getting third back, as the Woking team's driver, Oscar Piastri, was also affected, dropping from fourth to fifth.

Speaking in the Formula 1 drivers' press conference on Thursday in Austria, Gasly was asked about getting the Monaco trophy back.

He responded: "Looks good in my ⁠home. It looks good in the cabinet. No, obviously, you know, happy to get it back.

Hadjar, on the other hand, admitted he gets some consolation having to hand the trophy over to a friend and said: "At least to give it to my friend and not someone else. So at least that’s the good part."

However, it remains to be seen whether we have seen the final chapter of this fiasco, as Red Bull Racing and McLaren are yet to present their respective cases.

Piastri commented on the appeal and the reasons behind it; he said: "If we had known that certain things had played out the way they did, we would have made different decisions in the race, which we don’t really think is correct. So yeah, we’ll see what happens out of it.

"I think the risk that we ​have now is anytime a team or a driver feels that a penalty is ​potentially wrong or ⁠they have a chance of changing it, you go through this whole saga where we still don’t officially know the results of the race a month later, which I think is the biggest thing.

"It also ⁠sets a ​bit of a tricky precedent because you could just end up ​with everybody not serving their penalties and then arguing about it for weeks after, which is not what anyone wants to see," the Australian concluded.