“It has been fairly a very long time since we’ve been concerned in any of this form of scenario and it’s by no means nice.”
Having began inside the highest 10, Sunday marked a very good alternative for Gasly and Alpine to construct on a primary factors rating of the season one week earlier than in Bahrain.
As an alternative, the crew did not register for the fourth time this yr, with Jack Doohan crossing the road because the second-last finisher in seventeenth.
Reflecting on the missed likelihood, Gasly mentioned: “It appears like we might have been within the combine with Carlos [Sainz] and Alex [Albon] immediately. The incident itself doesn’t matter an excessive amount of to me immediately, it’s extra that we appeared robust and we might bag some good factors for the crew in that race.
“On a optimistic notice, now we have been aggressive all weekend and it’s most likely on paper not our greatest observe, so it brings good confidence. We must transfer on shortly and simply construct on these positives from the weekend.”
