The Frenchman was eighth in Canada but again finished behind Colapinto, so great is his discomfort that he decided to run with an old floor to try to understand the traction loss problems he has been experiencing for two races.
Pierre Gasly saved the furniture in Canada with a comeback that allowed him to finish eighth and score important points for Alpine, but the Frenchman could not hide his frustration after the Grand Prix. His teammate Franco Colapinto was again faster than him in all sessions of the weekend at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit and the Frenchman no longer knows what to attribute this performance difference to.co Colapinto
"Basically, something isn't working since Miami, there is a lot of work to do and I hope the team can help, I don't think what the upgrades brought is what we were looking for" declared Gasly at the end of the race, the Alpine driver refers to the updates that the French team introduced in Florida just three weeks ago and which, according to his testimony, have not yielded the expected results.
"I think there is something more fundamental, something that we are obviously trying to understand from the data, there are things that don't make sense and that unfortunately we haven't found a solution for yet" completed the Frenchman, who has lost the internal battle against his young Argentine teammate for two consecutive Grands Prix. While Colapinto has found in the new parts a performance boost that allowed him to sign a sixth place in Montreal, his best result in F1, Gasly has gone in the opposite direction.
So great is his discomfort that the Frenchman decided to run the Canadian Grand Prix with an old floor according to Motorsport France, in a desperate attempt to find answers to the traction loss problems he has been experiencing for two races.
Alpine and Gasly himself thus sought to find out the causes of the difficulties the A526 is having when driven by the Frenchman, while Colapinto seems to have found the key with the upgrades.
The goal now is to analyze all the data collected at Enstone during the two week break separating the Canadian GP from the next Monaco Grand Prix, which will take place on June 6 and 7.
The French team urgently needs to find a solution for Gasly, who has gone from being the team leader to being outperformed by a driver who arrived as a substitute and who is now beating him on track. The situation is delicate at Alpine, where internal harmony could be affected if a quick explanation for this imbalance is not found.
Gasly, who has been with the team for years, is not used to looking in the rearview mirror and seeing his teammate ahead, especially when the upgrades that were supposed to improve the car seem to have benefited only one of the two drivers.
