Pierre Gasly says he understands and helps Alpine’s resolution to fully revamp its F1 automobile idea this 12 months regardless of a disappointing marketing campaign to this point.
Earlier than present process a significant technical reshuffle in latest months, Alpine selected to not develop the primary concepts of the A523 any additional in an try and open up a brand new avenue providing larger scope for growth with this 12 months’s A524.
Fourth within the constructors’ championship in 2022, the Enstone-based crew 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 believe it is performance-related. Final 12 months the crew felt that it obtained to the top of the event with their automobile idea,” Gasly informed Motorsport.com.
“As we missed our targets, they’re like, ‘can we need to go for an additional 12 months the place we all know we’ll in all probability be caught to the place we’re?’ And so they stated, we wish greater than that, so, we’ll attempt one thing else.
“Which to me, I believe was the suitable selection. We’re not in Components 1 to be happy with the sixth place within the constructors’.”
Pierre Gasly, Alpine A524
Photograph by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Photos
Alpine’s hopes have been dashed and, in the interim, even Haas’ seventh place appears illusory.
Nevertheless, Gasly is relying on the work achieved at Enstone and on the margin for enchancment to do higher within the months to come back and, above all, to have a extra stable base with regards to 2025.
“Sadly, it did not pay out with the instructions that you already know they took with the automobile idea we’ve this 12 months, however nonetheless, I nonetheless assume the best way the crew’s working is at a greater degree than once I arrived,” he stated.
“So, it is a matter of bringing that efficiency onto the automobile, which is clearly not straightforward, however I do know we have got good instructions already for subsequent season, which can 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.”
