Pierre Gasly says he understands and helps Alpine’s determination to fully revamp its F1 automotive idea this 12 months regardless of a disappointing marketing campaign to this point.
Earlier than present process a serious technical reshuffle in current months, Alpine selected to not develop the primary concepts of the A523 any additional in an try to open up a brand new avenue providing better scope for improvement with this 12 months’s A524.
Fourth within the constructors’ championship in 2022, the Enstone-based staff slipped to sixth place final 12 months.
However after the primary half of the season, the outcomes have left Alpine with solely 11 factors scored and in a really distant eighth place within the championship.
However Gasly continues to consider that the choice taken on the time was justified.
“I feel it is performance-related. Final 12 months the staff felt that it bought to the top of the event with their automotive idea,” Gasly informed Motorsport.com.
“As we missed our targets, they’re like, ‘will we need to go for one more 12 months the place we all know we’ll in all probability be caught to the place we’re?’ And so they stated, we would like greater than that, so, we’ll attempt one thing else.
“Which to me, I feel was the fitting alternative. We’re not in System 1 to be glad with the sixth place within the constructors’.”
Pierre Gasly, Alpine A524
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Alpine’s hopes have been dashed and, in the interim, even Haas’ seventh place appears illusory.
Nevertheless, Gasly is relying on the work executed at Enstone and on the margin for enchancment to do higher within the months to return and, above all, to have a extra stable base in terms of 2025.
“Sadly, it did not pay out with the instructions that they took with the automotive idea we’ve this 12 months, however nonetheless, I nonetheless suppose the best way the staff’s working is at a greater stage than once I arrived,” he stated.
“So, it is a matter of bringing that efficiency onto the automotive, which is clearly not straightforward, however I do know we have good instructions already for subsequent season, which is able to put us in a greater place and with the type and processes and the individuals and what they’ve constructed and stored working, I can really feel that there will be one thing good popping out of it.”
