That Gasly has been in and out for six years is an anomaly which means AlphaTauri is used to operating without a team leader, or even a driver with years of experience.īut this is a new era, and seems today the Faenza-based team wants to be more than just a learning ground for future Red Bull drivers – they have goals of their own.Īlas to date Tsunoda hasn’t really shone he’s the guy to help them achieve said goals. He has to analyse that and then say it factually.”ĪlphaTauri is a team that traditionally keeps drivers for two or three years, then they are either off to Red Bull, a rival team, or they’re out of Formula 1. We have to know what exactly is the car doing. Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko has previously criticised Tsunoda’s feedback, saying the “engineer can’t do anything with feedback like ‘bloody f*cking car’. Currently, we face it the same way, just develop the car as much as possible, to have more consistent pace through the race week.” “Still, there’s a lot of room I can learn from him. But currently I’m learning as much as possible from him. “I wouldn’t expect straightaway to be able to perform or give the feedback to the team straight away like Pierre. “Pierre always gives good quality feedback even when the team is struggling, and I learned a lot of things from him. “Of course, it will be hard,” he said as per. He admits it won’t be easy stepping into Gasly’s role. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has made it clear that unless the FIA makes allowances for Herta to sign with AlphaTauri despite not having the mandatory superlicence points, he won’t release Gasly.īut if the FIA clears the path for Herta and Gasly moves to pastures new, that means Tsunoda with his two-years of Formula 1 experience will be AlphaTauri’s defacto team leader with his rookie by his side. However, there is one hold up: Colton Herta. Gasly is reportedly in line to replace Fernando Alonso at Alpine next season, the driver having agreed terms with the team while Red Bull have also reached an agreement with Alpine over the fee to release him from his contract. “But then we need to change the regulations.Yuki Tsunoda admits it will be “hard” to take on Pierre Gasly’s role of team leader at AlphaTauri, that’s if the Frenchman leaves for Alpine. “If one is not happy with the regulations, and you want to have a big bang show and two laps of racing and mayhem, I’m absolutely up for it,” he said. Wolff, however, with Abu Dhabi still fresh in the mind, was adamant that the FIA could never improvise again. There was enough time to get that race going.”
“That’s something that we’ve talked about for many, many years, that they should finish racing. “We don’t want to win a race under a safety car,” he said. Verstappen’s Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, was also critical.
“The FIA has been caught sleeping, maybe they are not yet ready to deal with these situations.” “Today we had all the conditions to have a restart of the race, I don’t know why they waited so long,” he said. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was denied a final charge at Verstappen had racing resumed and his team principal, Mattia Binotto, was scathing in his assessment of what had happened. “There are rules and whether I’m Abu Dhabi traumatised or not, these rules have been followed to the dot today.” “This time, they followed the rules,” he said. Hamilton’s Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, was equally barbed. “That is the rule that it should be, right? So only one time, in the history of the sport that they haven’t done the rule.” “It always brings memories back,” he said. Hamilton could not help but recall Abu Dhabi. Masi was dismissed by the FIA whose report into what happened cited “human error”. In Abu Dhabi last year under a similar late safety car the FIA race director, Michael Masi, improvised around the rules to ensure there was a final lap of racing, where Hamilton fell to Verstappen who was on fresh tyres.
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