In the round-up: Pierre Gasly says he is aiming to score points in two of the final three races of the 2022 season before he departs the team he has spent almost all of his career so far with.
In brief
Gasly aiming for points in at least two of final three races with AlphaTauri
Gasly has competed in 105 grands prix, all but 12 with AlphaTarui and its previous guise as Toro Rosso. This season has so far been his least successful with the team, having score just 23 points over the first 19 rounds. Asked by RaceFans what he would define as ending his time with AlphaTauri on a high, Gasly said finishing the final races in the top ten.
“What I will define a ‘high’ is, this year, points,” said the 2020 Italian Grand Prix winner. “You’ve got to be objective and quite honest with the situation, based on the number of points we’ve scored.
“For sure, it’s not tomorrow that we’re going to be fighting for the top five suddenly. Hopefully we can fight for the points until the end of the year. We have three more races and if we can get points at least on two of this occasions, that will be great.”
Magnussen takes grid penalty for sixth engine
Haas driver Kevin Magnussen will take a five place grid penalty for this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix after his team installed a sixth engine of the season into his car.
Magnussen had handed his car over to Pietro Fittipaldi for the first practice session on Friday, but Fittipaldi was told to stop his car on track after Haas detected a problem with the car’s turbo. Work on Magnussen’s car meant that he only took to the track for the first time over half an hour into the second session, eventually completing 21 laps all on the prototype 2023 Pirelli tyres, ending the session in 18th.
Mercedes junior Antonelli moves up to FREC
Mercedes development driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli will step up from Formula 4 to Formula Regional-level competition next year after it was confirmed he would compete in the 2023 Formula Regional European Championship.
Antonelli, who won this year’s Italian and German Formula 4 championships with Prema, will take a step up the single-seater ladder by competing in the FREC for 2023 with the team, considered a step below the FIA Formula 3 championship. Antonelli competed in a total of 43 F4 races across the UAE, Italian and German championships this year, winning 24 of them.
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