Pierre Gasly says he understands and helps Alpine’s resolution to fully revamp its F1 automotive idea this yr regardless of a disappointing marketing campaign up to now.
Earlier than present process a serious technical reshuffle in current months, Alpine selected to not develop the primary concepts of the A523 any additional in an try to open up a brand new avenue providing higher scope for improvement with this yr’s A524.
Fourth within the constructors’ championship in 2022, the Enstone-based group slipped to sixth place final yr.
However after the primary half of the season, the outcomes have left Alpine with solely 11 factors scored and in a really distant eighth place within the championship.
However Gasly continues to imagine that the choice taken on the time was justified.
“I feel it is performance-related. Final yr the group felt that it obtained to the tip of the event with their automotive idea,” Gasly advised Motorsport.com.
“As we missed our targets, they’re like, ‘will we wish to go for one more yr the place we all know we’ll most likely be caught to the place we’re?’ And so they stated, we would like greater than that, so, we’ll attempt one thing else.
“Which to me, I feel was the precise alternative. We’re not in System 1 to be happy with the sixth place within the constructors’.”
Pierre Gasly, Alpine A524
Photograph by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Photos
Alpine’s hopes have been dashed and, in the intervening time, even Haas’ seventh place appears illusory.
Nevertheless, Gasly is relying on the work finished at Enstone and on the margin for enchancment to do higher within the months to return and, above all, to have a extra stable base in relation to 2025.
“Sadly, it did not pay out with the instructions that you already know they took with the automotive idea we’ve this yr, however nonetheless, I nonetheless suppose the way in which the group’s working is at a greater stage than once I arrived,” he stated.
“So, it is a matter of bringing that efficiency onto the automotive, which is clearly not straightforward, however I do know we have good instructions already for subsequent season, which can put us in a greater place and with the kind and processes and the folks and what they’ve constructed and stored working, I can really feel that there will be one thing good popping out of it.”
