Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto have been each eager to maneuver on swiftly and goal the following spherical of the F1 season in Azerbaijan following a very difficult Italian Grand Prix for Alpine.
Gasly and Colapinto couldn’t make an impression on the midfield struggle at Monza, with the circuit’s traits exposing the weaknesses of Alpine’s bundle and resulting in low-key weekends for each drivers.
Whereas Colapinto completed the place he began in seventeenth, Gasly went from the pit lane (introduced on by pre-race energy unit modifications) to sixteenth – solely Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll, who tumbled down the order through a late pit cease, ending up behind them.
Requested to replicate on the race, and the place Alpine have been missing, Gasly replied: “In every single place. We’re simply struggling for tempo on Saturday and Sunday, and we knew coming right here to Monza it was all the time going to be tough.
“Ranging from the pit lane we simply tried completely different stuff, Franco beginning on medium [tyres], me on exhausting. I attempted to go so long as attainable; I feel we did 50 odd laps on this difficult hoping for a purple flag or Security Automotive to profit from, but it surely didn’t occur.
“We’re simply making an attempt. We’ve simply bought to maintain making an attempt each weekend.”
Colapinto added: “It was simply powerful, not so good on the market. A really lengthy race, very lonely. We tried our greatest I feel as a staff with completely different methods, but it surely simply didn’t actually work out.
“We’ll preserve pushing collectively. The subsequent one is Baku, so we’ll attempt to make up for this race.”
Nevertheless, regardless of naturally wanting extra from the weekend, Gasly made clear that “there’s no frustration to have on the minute” given Alpine’s hopes for 2026 and F1’s all-new regulations.
“We all know the state of affairs we’re in, we all know we’ve got no upgrades coming, we all know that it’s going to be the identical speech and the identical speak each weekend – we’ve simply bought to stay at it,” mentioned the Frenchman, who has signed to continue with Alpine through 2028.
“We all know subsequent yr is a totally new automobile, it’s a recent begin for all of us. I’m very constructive and really optimistic for it, so I’ve simply bought to maintain making an attempt my finest and attempt to take each lesson attainable for us as a staff. We’ll attempt once more in Baku.”
Alpine stay rooted to the underside of the Teams’ Championship standings after Monza, with their tally of 20 factors evaluating to 44 for ninth-placed Haas.
