driver has blamed the collision that took him out of the on his former Formulation 1 team-mate , claiming the latter moved below braking.
Tsunoda and Gasly have been working seventeenth and 18th – after making lap 1 – when the Alpine driver attacked his Pink Bull peer on the chicane.
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Gasly violently crashed into Tsunoda, with the TV broadcast that includes a “no brakes” radio message. Nevertheless, the Frenchman has clarified that this remark was taken out of context.
“I had the brakes,” he insisted. “Yuki made a mistake earlier than the tunnel, so I received very near him.
“Each lap he was braking on the racing line on the precise. This lap I used to be very shut, so I made a decision to remain on the left. He began braking on the left, I dedicated to the precise after which he moved again onto the racing line. I used to be already committing and braking later than him, so I simply could not go wherever.
“For me, right here, you have to stick with your line. You have already got no area to place two vehicles collectively. You possibly can defend the place, however then it is not a case of ‘I am going proper, I shut the door to the precise after which when you attempt to go left, I squeeze you to the left as properly’. It is a observe the place it is already onerous sufficient. I simply thought, ‘he’ll depart the area’.
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“I am positive we’ll chat about it, however I do not suppose it was his most interesting second.”
Pierre Gasly, Alpine
Pierre Gasly, AlpineSam Bagnall / Motorsport Pictures by way of Getty Pictures
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Nevertheless, when Gasly’s feedback have been put to the Japanese racer – rephrased as “erratic driving” – an astonished Tsunoda exclaimed: “What? I do not suppose I did something fallacious.
“I might do the identical if I had yet another time – as a result of I used to be hugging the wall on a regular basis. I knew he would attempt to overtake, and I did not need to transfer below braking.”
Regardless, it was yet one more tough weekend for Alpine, which suffered its worst qualifying session of the season with Gasly in 18th and team-mate final; the Argentine took thirteenth place within the race.
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Gasly nonetheless anticipated the Monte Carlo observe to not go well with Alpine’s A525 automobile.
“For me, it is primarily about understanding what did not actually work in qualifying, which I feel we have already got some concepts [about] – however we additionally know this observe would all the time spotlight some weaknesses of the automobile by way of experience,” he identified.
“The experience normally, we all know, just isn’t the energy of our automobile. It is on a observe like this the place you are going very low velocity, you go over kerbs, you are three-wheeling in lots of locations. We’re simply missing compliance for the time being.”
Gasly expects a a lot better displaying this weekend , on a diametrically opposed format the place Alpine received each vehicles in Q3 and in points-paying positions final yr.
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