As widely expected by Pierre Gasly on the eve of the British Grand Prix, the first two free practice sessions highlighted various difficulties encountered by theAlphaTauri on the circuit of Silverstone, explained by the French driver himself at the end of Friday afternoon. After a PL1 characterized by bad weather, which made the activity on the track almost nil, the PL2s have therefore not smiled at the one who faces this weekend with a fresh contract renewal in his pocket.
The second free practice session, in fact, even ended in the virtual penultimate row, at 18 ° place: “Today we damaged some parts of the car quite early which made things even more difficult for us, but in general we lack a lot of rhythm – commented a disheartened Gasly – we are in trouble in high curves speed, and unfortunately this is a track that has many. Based on the characteristics of the track, this weekend promised to be difficult, but tonight we will work hard and see what we can do to improve. We need to be in top condition and try to take a few steps forward so that we can be in the best position for Sunday. Maybe it will rain tomorrow, which wouldn’t be bad for us, but obviously we can’t rely on that, so we’ll work hard tonight to find a little more performance for qualifying. “
Complexities that were not lacking even for the other driver of the Faenza team: Yuki Tsunoda. The Japanese, while feeling at ease on a historic track such as Silverstone, was unable to hide the problems that emerged during the day, which turned into a 16th place after the checkered flag on PL2: “I enjoyed driving the new car here for the first time today – he has declared – it’s still a challenging circuit with high speed corners, but with the new car it was really exciting, especially in the Maggotts and Becketts corners, you can push even more than last year’s car and you slide a lot. Overall, it was a bit of an unusual day compared to most of the racing weeks, as we hardly raced in FP1 due to the rain. It seems to me that we only had one session, so it’s a bit strange, but we still managed to complete all the necessary tests this afternoon. At the moment we are struggling a lot with the car and we are quite far from the other teams. We expected this weekend to be more difficult, but we will have to take a big step forward to be competitive in qualifying. It looks like conditions are going to be tough tomorrow, so we need to look at all the data tonight and be able to adapt to whatever British weather conditions are offered to us. ‘
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