Pierre Gasly

The Frenchman has had a challenging start to the campaign but has been making progress in getting more comfortable with the RB15.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Horner: Gasly "coming out" of early-2019 slump<br>Gasly now feeling "a lot better" with Red Bull car<br><br><br>But he reckons one of the factors holding him back is how aggressive he is behind the wheel - especially with his use of the ...

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After a rough start to the Frenchman's Red Bull F1 career, Horner has praised Gasly for a "much stronger" showing in Baku.<br>Gasly felt he had made a breakthrough with the RB15 at the Azerbaijan-based street circuit, which was reflected in his charge from a pitlane start to a likely sixth-place finish – before a driveshaft failure forced his retirement.<br>Asked what Red Bull has been doing to ...

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The Frenchman, promoted from Toro Rosso to replace Daniel Ricciardo at the main Red Bull outfit, had struggled to get the most out of the car over the start of the season.<br>But though his Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend was compromised by a raft of penalties consigning him to a pitlane start and a subsequent mechanical failure in the race, Gasly appeared much more at ease with the Red Bull car at ...

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Gasly's results were stricken from the qualifying classification in Baku after his RB15 was found to be in breach of the required fuel-flow limit of 100kg per hour.<br>The Frenchman was already set to begin the race from the pitlane following a Friday weighbridge offence and thus only contested the first segment of qualifying.<br>He was the fastest of the 20 drivers participating in the segment ...

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But the stewards' decision will make no difference to the grid because Gasly was already destined for a pitlane start as a punishment for missing a call to the weighbridge at the end of Friday practice.<br>Gasly and Red Bull's summons was the first time that a breach of the fuel flow limit of 100kg per hour had been found in qualifying.<br>Previous disqualifications for the offence had only been ...

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Gasly benefited from a huge tow from Lance Stroll's Racing Point to lap quickest in the first part of qualifying in Baku.<br>However, FIA F1 technical delegate Jo Bauer reported that Gasly exceeded the maximum allowed fuel mass flow of 100 kg/h on that lap.<br>He referred the matter to the stewards, who have duly summoned Gasly and his Red Bull team.<br>Daniel Ricciardo exceeded the fuel-flow ...

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The Frenchman was returning to the pits after the session and was told over the radio to "attack" the pitlane entry before a planned practice stop.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Azerbaijan GP: Leclerc tops incident-filled FP2<br><br><br>But in doing that, Gasly failed to spot that his number had flashed up on the FIA board ordering him to stop for a mandatory weight check.<br>Having continued to his ...

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Gasly has had a difficult start to the campaign, but managed to score his best result of the season with sixth place – plus grab fastest lap – in the Chinese Grand Prix.<br>But although Gasly still has some way to go before he is able to properly challenge teammate Max Verstappen, Horner has faith that the issues the Frenchman is suffering from are being overcome.<br>“I think he has made a ...

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Verstappen was overtaken by Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari and both Renault drivers between the last two corners of the Shanghai circuit as a queue of cars prepared for their final flying laps in the top-10 shoot-out. <br>This prevented him from starting a lap in time before the session ended and prompted him to block Gasly as his new teammate tried to overtake him into the final corner as ...

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The Frenchman, who earned his first points of 2019 in Bahrain with eighth place, insists that there's much more to come once he's fully comfortable with the car.<br>Gasly has been on the back foot at his new team since a big crash in Barcelona testing. A frustrating weekend in Australia saw him start 17th and finish 11th, while at Sakhir he qualified 13th and eventually earned eighth, helped by ...

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After a strategy mishap in Australia saw him ruled out in Q1, Gasly endured another torrid qualifying in Bahrain, only just escaping elimination in the first segment before qualifying a lowly 14th.<br>The Frenchman had been outside of the top 10 in two of the three Bahrain practice sessions as well, and said his car hadn't felt right all weekend.<br>“I think since the beginning of the weekend ...

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For 2019, the maximum temperate that rear tyres can be heated has been lowered from 100-degrees Centigrade to 80-degrees C.<br>Drivers struggled in winter testing coming out of the pits thanks to the change, and it was noticeable in the Australian Grand Prix that drivers had more of a headache on their out-laps.<br>Gasly lost the chance of a points scoring finish when he was overtaken by Daniil ...

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Gasly, who started the Australian Grand Prix in 17th place after Red Bull was caught out by track evolution in Q1, couldn't recover to higher than 11th in the race.<br>He spent most of the race stuck behind the sister Toro Rosso car of Daniil Kvyat, and was unable to get past the Russian even when running on softer, fresher tyres late on.<br>“Pierre Gasly drove a very strong grand prix today,” ...

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Gasly endured a nightmare first qualifying session for his new outfit and will start only 17th on the grid after being eliminated in the opening segment.<br>This marked Red Bull's first Q1 exit since Max Verstappen couldn't participate in qualifying at all last year in Monaco after a practice crash.<br>The plan was for the Frenchman to get through Q1 using only one set of tyres, with a fast lap, a ...

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Red Bull chose to only make one run in the first segment of Melbourne qualifying.<br>Going into the final minutes, it sat third with Max Verstappen and eighth with Gasly.<br>But improvements from most of the rest of the field pushed them down the order.<br>Though Verstappen still made it through to Q2 in 10th, Gasly - just 0.144 seconds slower - was 17th and eliminated.<br>"We've been a bit ...

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After an encouraging first day of running in Australia for Red Bull, the only blemish on the day was an engine issue late on that forced Gasly in to the pits early.<br>"There was a small loss of power on the last lap, so we decided to pit to look into it," said the Frenchman, who ended up fourth quickest in second practice.<br>Following a check by Honda, the Japanese manufacturer later confirmed ...

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The Frenchman, stepping up to Red Bull from Toro Rosso, says he will need some time to get up to speed, and hopes to learn as much as he can from his teammate in the meantime.<br>"At the moment it's clearly not the target, we don't have the same experience in the team, and also in F1," he said when asked about beating the Dutchman.<br>"I would say it would not be the right target to focus on him ...

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Red Bull had to repair a heavily damaged RB15 after Gasly shunted at the high-speed Campsa right-hander on the penultimate day of Barcelona testing.<br>The team flew in parts overnight to complete the rebuild and Verstappen was able to hit the track half an hour after the day start.<br>However, he completed just 29 laps before Red Bull needed to assess the car's gearbox, which had been changed ...

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On Thursday the team trialled a new bargeboard around the sidepod, as illustrated in Giorgio Piola's picture above.<br>Breaking the lower piece into two, the new lowest section featured two slots to create a more concerted effort in driving airflow around the lower reaches of the car, while the piece that used to form the top half is also mounted to the floor.<br>This twists inwards to let the ...

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Leclerc clocked a 1m16.231s on the softest C5 compound on Thursday, and his effort stands six tenths clear of what anyone else has managed in testing in 2019 so far.<br>Gasly recorded a 1m17.091s on C4s for fourth-quickest on the day before his programme was ended early by a big crash at Turn 9.<br>Asked after the session whether he could've matched Leclerc's lap, which is only a half a tenth down ...

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Gasly dipped the left wheels of his Red Bull RB15 into the grass approaching the fast Turn 9 right-hander, Campsa, and was pitched off the track as he tried to turn in.<br>The car was slammed into the tyre wall, with the crash ripping the front and rear wings off the RB15 and forcing Gasly to visit the medical centre.<br>“I’m fine, a bit shaken, but I made a mistake in Turn 9 and you guys saw ...

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Ferrari driver Leclerc set the fastest time of the testing fortnight so far on Thursday morning, with his 1m16.231s effort on Pirelli's softest C5 tyre more than half a second faster than the next-best time.<br>That lap was also a mere six tenths shy of Lewis Hamilton's 2018 Spanish Grand Prix pole time.<br>Leclerc stopped with 20 minutes of the session to go but before that had added 82 laps to ...

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Gasly spent last season using Honda's engine with Toro Rosso, the Red Bull junior team last season, and has stepped up the to the senior team this year to partner Max Verstappen.<br>Red Bull's performance in the opening Barcelona test was low-key as the team focused on logging miles, aided by encouraging reliability from Honda.<br>"So far it's been really good, we haven't pushed it flat out but ...

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Gasly, making his debut behind the wheel of Red Bull's new Honda-powered RB15 after Max Verstappen drove it during a filming-day shakedown and the opening day of the test, crashed at Turn 12 with just over an hour to go in the day.<br>The car snapped out of control as he went through the corner, and the Frenchman spun rear-end-first into the tyre wall.<br>Asked to explain his crash at the end of ...

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Leclerc, replacing Kimi Raikkonen in the Italian team for 2019, set the fastest time of the day in the morning session, logging a 1m18.247s on the C3 tyre.<br>His time was narrowly slower than his teammate Sebastian Vettel’s opening-day benchmark, also set on C3s.<br>While Leclerc’s first day in the 2019 Ferrari was a success as he completed 157 laps, Gasly had a nightmare end to his debut as ...

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