Tag: Pierre Gasly

Gasly owns costly Q1 crash

Pierre Gasly has accepted full responsibility for crashing his car in Q1 and ending up 19th on the grid for Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The first qualifying segment had only just resumed from a red flag to collect Nyck de Vries’s crashed …

Pierre Gasly has accepted full responsibility for crashing his car in Q1 and ending up 19th on the grid for Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

The first qualifying segment had only just resumed from a red flag to collect Nyck de Vries’s crashed AlphaTauri car at Turn 3 when Gasly careened into he wall at the same corner, forcing another suspension.

It was a demoralizing conclusion to a difficult day for the Frenchman, who set only seven laps in first practice before his car set itself alight and forced him to stop on track.

His team worked hard in the break between practice and qualifying to repair the car, including installing a new gearbox and power unit, only to see it shattered in the barriers after just six more laps.

“Obviously very disappointed,” Gasly said. “It was a pretty tough day, a pretty tough Friday overall for us as a team.

“FP1 didn’t go as planned with an hydraulic issue in the first 20 minutes, and the boys did an incredible job to repair the car literally a minute before the qualifying, and then after it was tricky with so few laps.”

Gasly admitted that he’d made a rookie mistake under braking rather than there being any technical problem with the car owing to its rapid rebuild.

“Coming into Turn 3, I didn’t brake so late but didn’t brake hard enough,” he said. “I thought I could make the corner and unfortunately just understeered and put it into the wall.

“Pretty frustrating, but thanks to the new format at least we can put this behind us for tomorrow and refresh with the sprint tomorrow — but a pretty frustrating day.”

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The incident not only left the team with another hefty repair job — and Alpine has brought a raft of new parts to the car this weekend — but it’s left him chronically low on mileage at a confidence track ahead of another, shorter qualifying session on Saturday morning followed by the sprint race and then the grand prix on Sunday.

Asked if he had got any sense from the way the car was behaving with his limited track time, Gasly painted a grim picture.

“The reality is that this morning I think I did one lap in [1m] 46s, and the pace in quali was 41s,” he said. “All in all, there is quite a lot to work on for tomorrow.”

Though Friday qualifying evidently arrived too early for Gasly’s liking, he said he could take solace from the fact that Saturday is now a standalone day, which gives him a chance to rebound quickly, and that the Baku circuit will facilitate overtaking on Sunday when he’ll attempt to rise from the back row of the grid.

“We have got to look at some positives where we can find some,” he said. “With the sprint we know everything can happen, and we will go for it tomorrow.

“We score the points only tomorrow afternoon and on Sunday, so we will give our best shot. We can overtake, so we will have to use these opportunities and hopefully we can be a good surprise on Sunday and also tomorrow.”

Gasly escapes race ban while Ocon slams “suicidal” drivers on restart

Pierre Gasly escaped a race ban after the stewards did not penalize him for his collision with Esteban Ocon in the Australian Grand Prix, while his teammate called multiple drivers “suicidal” in their approach to restarts. A strong race from Gasly …

Pierre Gasly escaped a race ban after the stewards did not penalize him for his collision with Esteban Ocon in the Australian Grand Prix, while his teammate called multiple drivers “suicidal” in their approach to restarts.

A strong race from Gasly had him fighting for the podium but he ran wide at Turn 1 on the final restart when side-by-side with Carlos Sainz, who in turn tagged Fernando Alonso into a spin. When Gasly rejoined he drifted across the track into Ocon and both drivers were taken out of the race, prompting an investigation by the stewards.

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Gasly is just two penalty points away from the 12 required to trigger a race ban but no further action was taken after the stewards deemed it a first lap racing incident following discussions with both drivers.

Ocon himself was frustrated to be caught up in the incident but said he doesn’t hold blame against Gasly as he believes many drivers approached the restart with two laps remaining too aggressively.

“Before starting about the last lap crash, just thinking about the positives and just reflecting on everything that didn’t go our way,” Ocon said. “But that was out of our control, really. We had a mega start (initially), I gained three places. We decided to box on purpose to put the hard tire very early on. And obviously if there was no red flag just after that, we would have been like fourth or fifth. It would have been a very good first stint. So, that didn’t go our way.

“We lost everything that that we took from the red flag, then it was a very lonely race. I overtook the cars that had DRS so they were not without defense, it was very hard to to pass them and we did so. Then the pace was similar to the Ferraris and the Astons in front. So that was very promising.

“Obviously a very chaotic restart then honestly, it could have been any cars that I collided with. There was cars coming back on the track, obviously Pierre was one of them. But no hard feelings. He came and apologized and as I said, it could have been anyone.

“My tires were hot. I didn’t feel like it was very slippery. But what was tricky was the light being a little bit lower, we couldn’t really see so well. But some drivers were just suicidal a bit in Turn 1, like Nyck (de Vries) on the side. It was very close and obviously there’s a lot to gain at the time, but a little bit too much for some drivers.”

¡De miedo! Así se incendió el auto de Pierre Gasly en el GP de Singapur

El video que ya se hizo viral en redes muestra los momentos de tensión que se vivieron en la calle de boxes

Las prácticas de este viernes en el Gran Premio de Singapur tuvieron momentos de terror con un incidente en pits del Alpha Tauri de Pierre Gasly que se incendió.

Ya en boxes tras la práctica dos de este viernes, el francés estaba siendo apoyado por sus mecánicos para mover el monoplaza del piloto cuando la parte trasera estalló en llamas causando conmoción en el equipo y en Gasly que aún se encontraba dentro del vehículo.

La imagen dejó mucho nerviosismo entre los aficionados y el equipo de Alpha Tauri que de inmediato reacción con un extintor para sofocoar las llamas mientras el francés descendía del vehículo.

El video que ya se hizo viral en redes muestra los momentos de tensión que se vivieron en la calle de boxes tras la segunda práctica y hasta el momento no se ha dado ninguna explicación del incidente que involucra a Alpha Tauri y Red Bull al ser la escudería madre.

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Esto ya se puso raro, ahora novia de Leclerc le es infiel con Pierre Gasly

Aparentemente el romance fue descubierto por Leclerc y la relación de amistad está en muy malos términos

La Fórmula 1 ya se volteó a un escándalo de tintes amorosos con la supuesta infidelidad de la novia de Charles Leclerc con su amigo el piloto francés Pierre Gasly.

Y es que apenas nos estamos recuperando del shock del escándalo que nos dio nuestro querido Checo Pérez por andar de mano larga cuando un nuevo chisme invadió las redes sociales entorno a Charles Leclerc y Pierre Gasly.

Tanto el piloto de Ferrari como el de Alpha Tauri son amigos desde hace muchos años y se ha filtrado en los medios digitales un “chapulineo” de Gasly hacia Leclerc con un supuesto romance con la novia del monaguesco Charlotte Sine.

Aparentemente el romance fue descubierto por Leclerc y la relación de amistad está en muy malos términos, aunque ninguna de las partes involucradas ha dado declaraciones al respecto

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Checo Pérez cerca de renovar con Red Bull

El piloto mexicano Sergio Pérez está muy cerca de renovar contrato con Red Bull y continuar el buen trabajo realizado en esta primera parte de la temporada 2022.

El piloto mexicano Sergio Pérez está muy cerca de renovar contrato con Red Bull y continuar el buen trabajo realizado en esta primera parte de la temporada 2022.

Y es que con los resultados obtenidos en la campaña Checo está ya en pláticas con la directiva de la escudería austriaca para extender su vínculo por más tiempo sin que se hayan revelado más detalles de la operación.

Fue el propio Checo Pérez quien compartió que ya comenzaron las negociaciones aunque no tiene prisa por renovar su contrato pronto pues la pausa del verano será el tiempo en que el mexicano y la escudería se sienten a cerrar el acuerdo.

Checo terminó cuarto en el GP de Miami y tercero en la clasificación general del campeonato de pilotos, solo por debajo de su compañero Max Verstappen y del monaguesco Charles Leclerc de Ferrari.

No dudamos en la extensión del mexicano que compite con un puesto con Pierre Gasly, el francés sigue demostrando que quiere regresar a la escudería principal y retomar su carrera en Red Bull.

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Pierre Gasly corrió con intenso dolor: “Trataba de sobrevivir”

“Han sido las peores 15 vueltas de toda mi vida” reveló el francés que soportó un intenso dolor en la parte final del GP de Arabia Saudita

El piloto francés de Alpha Tauri, Pierre Gasly sufrió una de las peores experiencias en la Fórmula 1 al revelar que el pasado GP de Arabia Saudita lo corrió con un intenso dolor intestinal.

“Han sido las peores 15 vueltas de toda mi vida” reveló el francés que soportó un intenso dolor en la parte final de la carrera en donde terminó en la posición ocho.

“Fue principalmente en el lado derecho, así que necesito ver al médico. En las últimas cinco vueltas se trataba solo de sobrevivir, tenía un dolor enorme. Estaba contando las vueltas hasta el final, y por eso estoy feliz de que lográsemos terminar la carrera octavos”, concluyó.

La escudería presentó un video en sus redes sociales agradeciendo el esfuerzo de su piloto que pese al intenso dolor, pudo terminar de buena forma la competencia y darle a su escudería puntos para la clasificación.

No cabe duda que un mal día en el trabajo lo tiene cualquiera, ¡pero no a más de 300 kilómetros por hora!