Pierre Gasly again outside the points in Canada
Pierre Gasly had a disappointing weekend in Montreal. Starting at the back of the grid, the Frenchman was never able to climb up and leaves Canada with no points.
Weekends follow one another and are not the same for Pierre Gasly. Brilliant fifth in Baku last weekend, the Norman wanted to repeat in Montreal. But his weekend was spoiled from the qualifying session where a brake issue prevented him from making it out of Q1.
From then on, Gasly shares a common goal with his good friend Charles Leclerc, starting 19th on the grid: to make a “remontada” and collect valuable points. Starting 15th, Gasly misses his start a bit and quickly finds himself overtaken by Leclerc and the two Aston Martin cars of Vettel and Stroll.
In great difficulty with his medium tires, the Frenchman stops as early as the end of the sixth lap to put on hard tires. But the rest of his race remains quite anonymous: he struggles to overtake and remains stuck behind Alex Albon’s Williams for the last 14 laps of the race.
In the end, the Normand finishes in fourteenth place, only ahead of Norris who struggled throughout the race, Latifi, and Magnussen who collapsed due to an unsuccessful one-stop strategy.
“We were just really too slow. It wasn’t really a fun day. We struggled all along with grip, brakes, traction… There wasn’t much to do,” analyzed Pierre Gasly after the race. He still has 16 points and ranks eleventh after nine races. Last year at the same time, he already had 39 points.
