“It wasn’t too hard,” says Gasly of Hamilton battle

“I might not say simple, but it surely wasn’t too onerous,” says Pierre Gasly of 44 lap recreation of cat and mouse with Lewis Hamilton.

Even within the midst of a reasonably processional race it appeared odd to listen to skilled racing drivers – albeit now higher identified for his or her punditry – name for the race director to allow using DRS.

As soon as approval was given nonetheless, on Lap 35, it merely meant that mentioned pundits and commentators would get themselves labored up in a ‘will he, will not he’ frenzy any time drivers headed into Tamburello.

By the point DRS was lastly enabled, Lewis Hamilton had been staring into Pierre Gasly‘s tailpipe for 16 laps… sadly, even with its enabling the seven-time world champion was unable to make a transfer on the AlphaTauri.

“It was in all probability the one factor that occurred the entire race,” mentioned the Frenchman. “He was caught behind me, I used to be caught behind the (Albon) automobile, and that automobile was caught with the automobile forward… it was only a prepare.

“So it wasn’t a very thrilling race and fairly irritating,” he admitted. “Even with the DRS, we weren’t capable of make it spherical and attempt to set ourselves up for a transfer.

“We all know when you’ve gotten a foul qualifying, we made a mistake in qualifying, and whenever you begin from the again, it is all the time extraordinarily tough. And I feel we paid the value this weekend,” he added.

Requested if it was simple holding off the seven-time champ, he replied: “I might not say simple… but it surely wasn’t too onerous.

“Sadly for him he all the time will get caught behind me on tracks the place it is extraordinarily onerous to move,” he added, recalling final 12 months’s Monaco Grand Prix.

“However I feel I used to be as annoyed as he was, you recognize? Only for no matter cause, even with the DRS, this 12 months was very robust to move right here.”

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