Pierre Gasly was hit by a « shocking » failure of the front wing while trying to beat Valtteri Bottas in qualifying at the Qatar Grand Prix.
Bottas was third behind team-mate Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen when they were last runs took place in Q3. The AlphaTauri driver ran open a little on the penultimate corner, his front wing broke, fell under the car and punctured his right front tire, preventing him from completing his lap.
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« Qualifying was fantastic, the whole weekend has been really, really good so far, » said Gasly. “I think this track is one of my favorites too – easy to drive, the car has good balance, we can really push it to the limit and it was really great to drive here.
I improved by 1.5 tenths so I think we were very close to Valtteri – I don’t know if he improved or not, but our lap went really well together. On the outside of Turn 15 I pushed a little more, it was pretty shocking to lose the entire front wing inside the car and just blow the entire front right tire, so that was it.
« At the end of the day we did our job, qualified fourth behind the top two teams and it’s been a really impressive weekend for our team so far. «
Gasly admits that the recent failure was not a big one for AlphaTauri, given similar problems in previous races The surprise is that although he didn’t think he went far enough into the corner to risk such a problem.
“We know our front wing is really weak compared to others – I lost it in Bahrain , I lost it in Monza, I lost it over the various curbs in Sochi, so it seems really fragile. I have to check – it didn’t seem like I went super far, but it clearly broke suddenly. «
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