Silverstone exposes AlphaTauri’s F1 weaknesses, says Gasly

The Italian squad endured a tough first day of follow, with Gasly ending up 18th within the dry FP2 and teammate Yuki Tsunoda solely two locations additional forward.

Though Gasly says his afternoon operating was not helped by automobile injury, he says that the AT03’s deficit to its rivals on the type of fast corners that make up the Silverstone circuit clarify its type.

“It clearly exposes us,” he mentioned. “You could have these very lengthy 180-degree corners, that are often not our favourites, and plenty of high-speed content material as nicely, Turns 1 and a pair of, Maggotts and Becketts. And that is the place we appear to battle.

“I feel McLaren is the exact opposite. They’re fairly quick on this sort of corners and we noticed it immediately.

“On our aspect of the storage, we broken some components on the automobile fairly early on, so clearly it made life even worse. However I feel typically we’re simply missing tempo, so we must see if we are able to give you some options for tomorrow.”

Yuki Tsunoda, AlphaTauri AT03

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Tsunoda felt that until the group discovered an enormous in a single day change to carry its type, then it was doubtlessly braced for a battle to get out of Q1 on Saturday.

“We’re type of fairly far-off,” mentioned the Japanese. “It is not like a small step. So yeah, we want one thing: massive, massive steps. Hopefully that works extra nicely tomorrow.

“To this point it seems like we’re even struggling to undergo to Q2 in the mean time. So one of many hardest weekends.”

Gasly says the traits of its automobile means that there’s little hope of a reprieve in Austria subsequent weekend – though that was no excuse to surrender.

“I feel the 2 coming weekends are going to be fairly difficult primarily based on the observe traits,” he mentioned. “However , we should always not begin the weekend pondering with defeat mindset, so we have to work.

“We all know it is not straightforward, however that is why we should be on prime of our recreation, and attempt to do even higher if we need to have an opportunity to get any reward on Sunday.”