Pierre Gasly abandons in Las Vegas
Bitter disappointment for Pierre Gasly at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, who has to retire on the 15th lap.
Life sometimes seems unfair to Alpine’s French. While he had managed to pull off the surprise on Saturday and qualify in third position on the starting grid in Las Vegas, Pierre Gasly has to… retire this Sunday, on the 15th lap. The Frenchman fell victim to a loss of power from his engine.
No power, no power, he shouts on the radio. He is told that everything is fine… while smoke is coming out of the back of his single-seater.
Frustrated, he entered the pit lane, definitively. We can obviously feel the bitter disappointment of the Alpine driver in the garage… His teammate Esteban Ocon is currently in 15th place in this Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Pierre Gasly’s reaction in Las Vegas
We lost the engine all at once, we had a problem that prevented me from having the performance I hoped for… It hurts me as we had a very good qualification yesterday, I thought we would have a battle with Yuki Tsunoda for 7th or 8th place but we won’t have that today,” he commented on Canal + microphone.
He also addressed the issue of graining on the rear tires. We knew that graining could happen very quickly. It was on the rear tires. We will have to review all of that. We knew it was going to be complicated, a two-stop race with opportunities. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out, he conceded, dismayed.
