The FIA's International Court of Appeal fired back at Flavio Briatore's bias claims with a pointed defense of its judicial process. The Alpine executive director had questioned judge Filippo Marchino's impartiality after the ICA reinstated two Monaco GP penalties against Pierre Gasly, dropping him from third to seventh. The court emphasized that all four judges followed standard conflict-of-interest protocols, made annual disclosures, and signed case-specific independence declarations. More damning for Briatore: Alpine had multiple opportunities to object to the panel composition during the hearing and said nothing. The ICA's statement, signed by its top four officials, made clear that questioning legal merit is fair game—questioning integrity crosses a line. With the ruling final, Gasly's podium stays scrubbed from the books, and Alpine is left arguing procedural grievances it could have raised in real time but didn't.
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