Pierre Gasly is aiming to catch the top four in F1 this weekend.
After two races, the French outfit have emerged in a bit of a no man’s land where they have the pace to keep the final five teams behind them but not enough to catch Red Bull, Aston Martin, Mercedes and Ferrari up ahead.
But for a team with ambitions to solidify their P4 spot, Alpine will be pushing to move closer to the cars ahead and new recruit Gasly was confident they could do that this weekend in Melbourne. Despite a truncated day with plenty of instances of high traffic, something Gasly described as like a “war zone”, the Frenchman said the goal was to close the gap between themselves and the frontrunners.
“I think it’s been a good day overall,” he told F1.com. “For sure not an easy one wwithas the conditions changing throughout, pretty messy with the traffic, [it] was like a war zone this morning in the last sector trying to get through the traffic. “But generally speaking, I felt good with the car and I think there were definitely some positives coming out of Friday so quite confident going into tomorrow. Hopefully we can fine tune in the day. We’ve got to aim for Q3 and try to get close to the top four.”
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