Pierre Gasly hopes to have a “clean weekend” in Monaco
Driving in the streets of Monaco is always a perilous exercise for Formula 1 drivers. This year, succeeding in achieving a good result with your single-seater could prove even more difficult with the risk of rain this Sunday, May 27 in the Principality. Arrived in 6th position last year, Pierre Gasly is ready to brave the elements during the Grand Prix. ” I am thoroughly excited! I have the pictures of Panis in my head, that’s the only thingemphasizes the AlphaTauri pilot. It’s complicated, but I see it more as an opportunity. We know, if it’s dry and once the qualifying is done, that within two places it’s quite limited »
The crown jewel of the Formula 1 calendar doesn’t always mean a great show with few overtaking in the winding streets. But, the rain could redistribute the cards in Monaco. ” With these cars, in the dry it will be complicated but in the rain it will be quite physical. But I’m excited for the challenge. We only drove at Imola in the rain, but because of the regulations it’s a little more complicated than before. On a track like Monaco it can be a bit folkloric. The car is heavier, stiffer, and on less damping. »
On Monegasque land, the French driver will try to complete the Grand Prix without a hitch after experiencing many problems this season. ” We really have to manage to have clean weekends. For the moment, the six weekends we’ve had are six weekends where odds and ends always happen to us: either mechanical glitches or incidents in the race. It is true that it impacts us on the final result on Sunday “, points out Pierre Gasly.
More complicated for Pierre Gasly with the AT03
With a more capricious and less efficient AT03, the Normand is less prominent in the middle of the peloton. “ Today, we are aware that our performance is not at the level of last year, not at the level that we would maintain. There are many teams that have made progress. But besides that, compared to last year, we don’t help each other every weekend with what we do and the glitches we have. »
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Yet within the Italian team, optimism was in order after the early season tests in Barcelona. ” What’s weird is that we had the best winter tests in the history of the team, so if we were confident about anything, more than performance, it was unreliable. And for now, I would say that has been our weak point since the beginning of the year. »
With only 6 points on the clock this season, Pierre Gasly may have regrets about his missed start to the season. ” I could easily have 12 or 14 more points, with Bahrain and Miami. Unfortunately, that’s how it is. Of course it’s annoying, after a while it gets a little boring because I want to score. It’s good to be fast in free practice, in qualifying, but in the end it’s also the points that count. I keep trying to pull the team up because we need it, and we have more competition than last year.. » Dominated by Yuki Tsunoda since the start of the season, Pierre Gasly can come back to his teammate this weekend on a route that had not smiled on Nippon, 16th in 2021.
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