Alpine boss, Otmar Szafnauer has confirmed that his staff is working to enhance its communications with its drivers following Pierre Gasly’s penalties in Spain.
The Frenchman was hit with two three-place grid penalties are being adjudged as having impeded Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen in separate incidents.
Having certified sixth, this meant Gasly dropped to tenth on the grid, thereby making his afternoon’s work all of the harder.
“It had a really unhealthy impression, clearly, on our weekend, from qualifying, for us to begin P10 and drop to P14 on lap one, so it was undoubtedly a fairly horrible begin,” mentioned the Frenchman on Thursday.
“There are at all times issues we are able to do higher,” he added. There have been small errors, which had been completed in qualifying, which we reviewed and can enhance when it comes to process and communication.
“It was a harsh penalty. Sadly, there’s a regulation, which is utilized more often than not after which we paid a reasonably large value.”
Since Barcelona Gasly has visited the staff’s Enstone HQ to debate the problem.
“We met in between Spain and right here with Pierre and his engineering staff,” confirmed Szafnauer. “We met for about an hour and a half to debate communication technique, how we talk with him, the knowledge that he wants, the timing of the knowledge that he will get, what he does with that info, simply so we are able to get a bit of bit higher.”
“It was unlucky,” he admitted. “Had he really began fourth and ran fourth as an alternative of beginning the place he did after which being pushed huge and ended up 14th after lap one, it is considerably completely different operating 14th than operating fourth.
“So we’ve got to ensure that after we qualify that prime, we are able to really race there. And we are going to do some issues in another way, particularly on Pierre’s aspect. Esteban is extra used to his engineering staff, as a result of he is been with us for lots longer.”
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