Pierre Gasly has asked Alpine for more time to adapt and improve his speed following his switch to the team for the 2023 F1 season. ⬇️
The 2021 Italian Grand Prix victor kicked off his Alpine tenure by qualifying last for the Bahrain opener after exceeding track limits but recovered to ninth in the race. He repeated that result in Saudi Arabia to finish one place behind team-mateAlpine F1 boss Otmar Szafnauer has now revealed Gasly then requested patience while the driver improves his understanding of car set-up and the engineering team.“He’s enjoying the team, he likes his engineering team and the mechanics, and we like him.
“He’s fast but it will take time at the margin to eke every little bit out of the car and he’s still getting comfortable with us. “I talked to him after the last race [in Saudi] and he said, ‘Look, give me a couple more races and there’s a couple of tenths in me’.”Asked where that gain would come from, Szafnauer added: “I think it’s just a better understanding of driver and engineering team to set the car up like he likes it.”
Alpine set a clear pre-season target of retaining fourth in the constructors’ championship while closing the gap to Red Bull,
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