In the round-up: Pierre Gasly says that a mistake in Friday qualifying compromised his entire grand prix weekend at Imola
In brief
Gasly ‘paid the price for qualifying mistake’ in ImolaPierre says says that a single mistake in Friday qualifying compromised his entire Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix weekend.
Gasly was eliminated in Q1 in 17th place, one position behind team mate Yuki Tsunoda, and finish the sprint race in the same position after opening lap contact with Zhou Guanyu.
He finished the grand prix out of the points in 12th place. Asked what lessons he could take from the weekend, Gasly said that “the lesson is we’ve got to qualify”.
“We can’t make mistakes in qualifying,” he continued. “We’ve had really good qualifying the entire season, made a mistake on Friday and then, yeah, we paid the price from there.
Gasly spent the final 43 laps with Lewis Hamilton behind him, and took the chequered flag behind Alex Albon’s Williams.
“[Hamilton] was stuck behind me, I was stuck behind the car who was stuck with the car ahead and it was just a train,” said Gasly. “So it wasn’t a particularly exciting race and quite frustrating.”
Porpoising a “virtual barrier” on Aston Martin’s performance – Krack
Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack says that the porpoising effect experienced in their AMR22 acts as a “virtual barrier” to the team’s performance.
Aston Martin finally secured their first points of the season in Imola after a frustrating opening three rounds of 2022. But Krack says that the team cannot fully exploit the performance of their car due to excessive bouncing created by the new ground effect aerodynamics.
“We cannot explore the overall potential that the car is having due to the porpoising,” Krack says. “This puts like a virtual barrier on how far we can go. So we cannot extract the performance that the car is really having. This is the main problem.”
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