Gasly: ​​"We didn't do the best we could"

At a time when the Formula 1 enters the last two Grands Prix of its 2024 season, the various teams are inevitably starting to think about the results of a trying year, with 24 events that will have been contested by the evening of Abu Dhabi, next Sunday. The qualifications of the Grand Prix of Qatar, this Saturday in Losail, completed for Alpine et Pierre Gasly the beautiful evolution that was that of the A424 throughout the year. If Esteban Ocon was still in difficulty, with the twentieth and last time of Q1, his teammate failed at the gates of Q3, in eleventh position, twelve small thousandths of a second from the Red Bull by Sergio Pérez.

A performance that the stable ofenstone and its pilots would have welcomed with open arms at the very beginning of the year, when the car at the A arrowed was fighting not to monopolize the last positions of the starting grid. Since then, many changes have taken place in the structure, both cars finished on the podium in Brazil, Gasly qualified third in Las Vegas… and an eleventh position therefore becomes a source of disappointment. And the disappointment of a result can highlight the positive, when we listen to the driver of theAlpine No. 10, who explained to Canal+ that his non-qualification in Q3 came from a bad decision taken on the settings at the end of qualifying.

“We did some good things, but on the last set of tires we tried to make adjustments that weren’t good. As a result, we had no grip, I think we didn’t necessarily understand what the tires needed at that point in qualifying. It’s definitely down to nothing, but I feel like we didn’t do the best we could with the weapons we had.”

The winner of the 2020 Italian Grand Prix remains motivated by the idea of ​​being able to regain a place in the points at this penultimate Grand Prix of the season. The bad tire adjustment can indeed be corrected for the Grand Prix which will start at 17:XNUMX French time.

"Sunday is when the points are scored, we'll make sure we can recover. It's still eleventh place, but I know for sure that if we do things right on this last set of tyres, the Q3 place is there."

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