“I don’t understand the team’s decision”: Pierre Gasly annoyed at Alpine after the Japanese GP

This is a sequence that Alpine would have done well without. The French team, whose results did not live up to expectations at the start of the season, also had to face the wrath of a disgruntled driver on Sunday morning. On a video published by Canal, we can see Pierre Gasly gesticulating in his car.

The sequence took place during the final lap of the Japanese Grand Prix, which took place on Sunday morning. While Pierre Gasly was in ninth place in the race standings, his team asked him to let Esteban Ocon pass in front of him. Eleventh in the drivers' world championship, this allowed the native of Evreux to take one more point and reduce the gap with driver Lance Stroll, who drives for Aston Martin. But this decision did anything but please Gasly, twelfth in the championship and seven points behind Ocon.

“It was a race where we both finished (with his teammate Esteban Ocon) in the points,” says Gasly, annoyed. There are positives and negatives. For the team, going 9th and 10th or 10th and 9th is the same thing. I don't understand the decision to change the places, knowing that it was never discussed before the race. We had said that if they decided to do the undercut with Esteban (Ocon) to help him during his race, we would exchange positions at the end, but on the last lap, I was asked to change, which had never been the case since I started in front. I had done better qualifying, I was in front and I had more pace at the end with fresher tires. I don't really understand the need (to swap positions). But we finished 9th and 10th and that's three more points for the team. The rest, we will discuss internally. " Atmosphere.