Third on the grid, Pierre Gasly was nevertheless aiming for big points and Esteban Ocon had the pace to pick up one or two places in the race, he who started eleventh. At the finish, Alpine displays a double zero. The fault firstly lies with an engine, that of Gasly, which went up in smoke on the 15th lap after an already very average tire change (3.3 seconds). “We suddenly lost the engine, I could no longer shift gears normally, nor acceleratethen explained the Rouennais. I was then fighting with Yuki Tsunoda for 7/8th place. It’s hard to accept. » What more can I say? Curse against the fragility of the Renault engine? Blame the mechanics for a possible error? The analysis that will be done internally will not change anything in the narrative. The frustration is total for the driver, and the team, which was riding a wave of happiness since São Paulo, falls back into its failings.
