Pierre Gasly faces a one-race F1 ban if he picks up two more penalty points, a situation he thinks is 'embarrassing'. But should the FIA change the way penalty points are applied to reduce the likelihood of this prospect? mattkewF1 explores 📝
That will mark the Monaco Grand Prix, the first race to follow the one-year anniversary of him understeering into the side of Lance Stroll and pitching the Aston Martin into a spin in Spain.
Should Alpine-bound Gasly get it wrong this weekend in Brazil, he would have to sit out his Red Bull stable farewell in Abu Dhabi. Any time after that, he'd be hurting his transition to his new team. In either case, his absence might potentially alter the outcome of both drivers' and teams' championships. Hence why he is to hold further talks with the FIA in Brazil to ensure he doesn't face time on the sidelines.He said of his precarious state:"I'm not going to lie.
A second offence during that weekend at the Red Bull Ring came when he exceeded track limits one too many times for the stewards' liking. That earned just the one point, is much easier to defend, and falls well short of what Gasly refers to as"dangerous". Albon was also penalised for colliding with Stroll in Jeddah, and agrees that the penalty points system could do with a rethinkGiven Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas held similar views, it seems the FIA is under genuine pressure from drivers to relax the penalty points system. Should the governing body go ahead and adjust the set-up, the question would be how to implement those tweaks.
Then, in the United States, it was another two points for dropping"significantly" more than 10 car lengths behind the safety car. But his total stayed at nine points, as the two he earned for colliding with Fernando Alonso at Turn 1 on the opening lap of the 2021 Turkish GP were scrubbed a year after the event.
Naturally, if Gasly doesn't commit another foul before the chequered flag of the Emilia Romagna GP next season then there will be no races missed, no additional controversy for the governing body to contend with. Famously and most recently, Romain Grosjean was benched for his part in the enormous La Source shunt in the 2012 Belgian GP when his Lotus only narrowly avoided Fernando Alonso's head and four cars were eliminated in one fell swoop.
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