Fourth place in qualifying now seems to be his ‘home’. Once again Pierre Gasly he stands out in Q3 as the best of the ‘others’. After the usual three – Hamilton, Verstappen and Bottas – there is the Frenchman from AlphaTauri, who deservedly earned the second row despite a spectacular accident precluding his second attempt in the closing phase of the session. The AT02 jumped with force on a curb and the front wing of the Faenza car broke, slipping under the right front wheel and thus causing a spectacular puncture.
The native of Rouen was good at not losing control of the vehicle, then parking it on the main straight, near the pit wall. “Losing the front wing like this was a bit of a shock – admitted the French at the end of the day to the microphones of Sky Sport F1 – but that’s okay. The lap was going well and we would have gotten even closer to the top positions, but I’m happy anyway. We are fourth, it was a fantastic qualifying for us and we are very happy. The strategy for tomorrow? For us it has always been this – Gasly clarified – we wanted to give ourselves the maximum possibility for the choice of tires for the race and all are available for tomorrow. We wanted to start on soft tires, it was my choice already before qualifying and we followed this plan“.
Gasly’s fourth place on the grid was also favored by the sensational elimination of Red Bull’s second in Q3 Sergio Perez. A very heavy result from the point of view of the two world races, which clearly favors Mercedes. Asked about a possible help to be given to former teammate Verstappen, Gasly gave the idea of wanting to think – understandably – only about his own race. “I don’t drive Red Bull. I can’t help him in the same way [di Perez]. Of course, I’ll do my best if we can fight against the Mercedes. But we also need to be realistic. We will try them all and if there is a chance we will. But I expect them to cut us off. We will fight with Alonso and the others who are behind: Carlos and Norris. But if there is an opportunity at the start, I will take it” commented.
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