MERCEDES have withdrawn their appeal against George Russell’s time penalty at the Monaco Grand Prix earlier this month.

Russell was one of five drivers punished for pit-lane speeding in the principality on June 7, and a failure by Mercedes to serve his penalty correctly meant he was also hit by a drive-through sanction which dropped him out of the points.

Championship leaders Mercedes served a “right of review” when Alpine’s Pierre Gasly had his Monaco podium reinstated after Formula One’s governing body accepted there were inaccuracies over the pit-lane speeding measurements.

Gasly had been demoted from third to seventh after he was given two separate five-second time penalties.

McLaren, whose driver Oscar Piastri had already served time penalties for the same offence earlier in the race, and Red Bull have lodged separate protests with the FIA Court of Appeal and they are ongoing, but Mercedes have opted not to pursue the matter.