Alpine Mexican GP Points Lost to Two Yellow-Flag Penalties

Alpine left the Mexico City Grand Prix with no points after two post-race yellow-flag penalties rewrote the bottom of the top ten. Franco Colapinto is classified 15th and Pierre Gasly 17th on the official Formula 1 results for the race run on 1 November 2026, so the eight Alpine Mexican GP points that appeared briefly on Sunday evening are gone. The reshuffle lifted Liam Lawson to seventh and gave Haas debutant Ryo Hirakawa a point in tenth.

Why are the Alpine Mexican GP points gone?

It took a chain of three penalties. First, Oscar Piastri received a 10-second time penalty for causing a collision with Arvid Lindblad, which The Race reports happened at Turn 1. That promoted Colapinto to seventh and Gasly into the points in ninth. For a short while, Alpine held eight points.

Then the stewards looked at the yellow flags. Colapinto was given a 10-second penalty for failing to slow enough under a single waved yellow, according to The Race. The same report says he was cleared on a second, double-yellow allegation because the stewards had doubt about how much warning he had. Gasly's offence was heavier: a double-waved yellow infringement that carried a stop-and-go penalty, converted into a 30-second time loss, plus two penalty points on his licence.

Seventh and ninth place, worth six and two points under standard scoring, vanished from Alpine's column in one overnight decision.

Who gained from the Mexico City penalties?

The official classification shows the winners. Lawson, who The Race says started from the pit lane, takes seventh and six points. Gabriel Bortoleto of Audi is eighth, Isack Hadjar of Red Bull ninth, and Hirakawa tenth for one point on his first Grand Prix start. For a reserve driver, that point is the most unexpected line on the sheet.

One caution. Outlets disagree on where Piastri finally sits after his own penalty, and the standings tables we checked did not fully agree with each other, so we are leaving his final position and any constructors' gaps out until the numbers settle.

Why does the Alpine penalty matter?

Both drivers apologised in a team press release, and Gasly said the yellow-flag error was his own, as reported by The Race. That is the right instinct, and it is also the lesson of the weekend: in a midfield where seventh is worth six points, a lifted foot is cheap and a missed one is expensive.

GridRaces data through the first 17 rounds of 2026 shows how thin the margin is. Alpine's drivers have averaged a grid slot of 11.56 and a finish of 10.53, so this is a team living on the edge of the points line. Eight points arriving and leaving in a single day is not noise for a car in that position. It is the difference between a good Sunday and a flat one.

The next test is close. The Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos is scheduled for 8 November 2026, and much of the midfield will be fighting over the same few points. If you want to put your own call on how it falls, the GridRaces predictions page is open for the round, and the standings page tracks the points.

For more on Mexico City, read our look at Hamilton's nine-thousandths pole, browse our news coverage, or open the telemetry pages.