Formula 1 | In Monaco, AlphaTauri missed the points because of a bad Saturday
Badly qualified in Monaco where he started 17th, Pierre Gasly came back thanks to a daring strategy in the race and finally failed at the gates of the top 10. For his part, Yuki Tsunoda had a bad start and lived through a difficult Grand Prix in the together.
The technical director of AlphaTauri, Jody Egginton, therefore took stock of the weekend of the Italian team which was not rewarded with points.
“It was a lively race. The rain of course disturbed us a lot, but it was also a great opportunity to come back for Pierre. We chose an aggressive strategy and put him on intermediate shoes from the start and it went very well. market, as many competitors have stayed on wet tires and gone straight to slicks.”
“Seeing Pierre’s pace, we made a similar decision for Yuki and put him on intermediates as well, but he couldn’t get them to work as well. We then put both our riders on hard tyres, In theory, we had to hold the flag until the finish but a red one was raised. After that, we maintained our positions until the finish.”
“After the sensitivity of Ocon, we were almost in the points. We lost time on Vettel during our stop, which unfortunately cost us the position. We came back well with Pierre, and the lesson of the weekend is that we have to know the best Saturdays in order to have the best opportunities on Sundays.”