AGAIN A GREAT PERFORMANCE FROM GASLY

A contender for driver of the season has to be Pierre Gasly who continued his redemption streak with a brilliant race. 

After experiencing a fire in his AlphaTauri during the Friday practice sessions and given a new chassis, Gasly was on the back foot for qualifying but was still able to take ninth.

In the race, Pierre proved untouchable, unlocking the magic on his Soft tyres to keep them alive and subsequently move to the front of the grid. 

After a mighty battle with Sergio Perez in the closing stages of the race, Gasly was able to take home a super fifth place finish. 

Gasly was punching above AlphaTauri’s weight here. His strong fifth place, undeterred by the late and super-robust defence by Sergio Perez, was based upon a super first stint on the softs, on which he kept up a great pace without destroying them.

It’s just further confirmation that he can now be relied upon to deliver top-class performances pretty much every time out. It seems unjust that he’s apparently not about to be re-promoted within the Red Bull group.

AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly believes he is driving better than ever after taking a strong fifth position at Formula 1’s Portuguese Grand Prix.

Gasly started from ninth place at Algarve but made gains to move up the order and prevailed in a late battle against Sergio Perez to classify fifth.

The result elevated AlphaTauri driver Gasly to 63 points after 12 races – mirroring his points tally achieved at Red Bull during the first half of 2019, following which he was demoted.

“I have a bit more experience now and I think I manage and approach the weekend in a different way and managed to extract everything a bit more so I think it is fair to say that,” he said.

“There is still many areas to improve but it is working well and also the team is doing everything I need to perform so we have a good working relationship.

“Some moves were very tight on the inside so I was very happy to make it around the outside on the next lap so to get the fifth place… nice. It felt good from the inside, but it didn’t look it from the outside.

“It was a great race for us and we are really strong at the moment, we finished sixth last weekend and fifth this weekend so honestly we really managed to extract everything from the car on Sundays.

“On my side I feel I am performing at a very good level so I will keep pushing that way.”

Alexander Albon, who replaced Gasly at Red Bull, has struggled at the senior team and his position for 2021 is under threat.

But Red Bull has outlined that if it opts to replace Albon it will look outside of its roster, rather than re-recruit Gasly, emphasising that he will be remaining at AlphaTauri.

“At the end of the day Red Bull decides what it wants to do with the drivers,” he said.

“On my side the only thing I can do is perform but obviously we know that performance is not the only criteria to be in Formula 1 and to get a seat in Formula 1 so we will see.

“On my side that is out of control so the only thing that I can do is put in good results and I think at the moment it is working well.

“I have scored the most points in Toro Rosso [AlphaTauri] than of the any other drivers in the past and hopefully I will get rewarded at some point.”

again a great performance from gasly again a great performance from gasly

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