On 3/5/23 15:27, Phil Carmody wrote:
XYXPDQ <[email protected]> writes:
On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 11:18:11 AM UTC-8, XYXPDQ wrote:
Your choice for driver of the day?
Alonso - what a way to restart your career when younger drivers have
long retired
Tip of the hat to Max - It's amazing the way drivers like Schumacher
and Hamilton and Max ect can keep focus lap after lap when there's no
one to push them.
From what I saw, it seems to be Alonso, but I want to know exactly
how Gasly gained as many places as he did. That was alas not on our
feed, because reasons.
Phil
If this helps you, read from
https://frontstretch.com/2023/03/05/a-stumble-from-9th-and-a-rumble-to-9th-for-alpine/
It was a rollercoaster of a night for the bright pink Alpine F1 team on
Sunday (March 5) at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Esteban Ocon began the race in ninth, but almost immediately drew a
penalty due to improperly parking himself on the starting grid.
Then, before he could pit for tires and to serve his penalty, he damaged
his front wing and had to get that replaced.
To make things even worse, then the team screwed up by starting to
remove the front wing before fully serving the time penalty, which
required yet another pit stop for a 10-second penalty.
Finally, while pitting to serve the 10-second penalty, Ocon was caught
speeding on pit road and had to serve yet another penalty for that. The
French driver would park his French car after 41 of 57 laps.
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It was a rollercoaster of a night for the bright pink Alpine F1 team on
Sunday (March 5) at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Esteban Ocon began the race in ninth, but almost immediately drew a
penalty due to improperly parking himself on the starting grid.
Then, before he could pit for tires and to serve his penalty, he damaged
his front wing and had to get that replaced.
To make things even worse, then the team screwed up by starting to
remove the front wing before fully serving the time penalty, which
required yet another pit stop for a 10-second penalty.
Finally, while pitting to serve the 10-second penalty, Ocon was caught
speeding on pit road and had to serve yet another penalty for that. The
French driver would park his French car after 41 of 57 laps.
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On the other side of the Alpine garage, Pierre Gasly had to start 20th
out of 20 cars after his final qualifying lap was disallowed due to
exceeding track limits. Gasly was able to work his way past both drivers
from Haas and his former team AlphaTauri, Williams rookie Logan Sargeant
and Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu.
Gasly was also able to overcome both McLaren drivers as they struggled
with various mechanical issues. When Charles Leclerc‘s power failed on
his Ferrari with 18 laps to go, the entire midfield pitted for soft
tires under the virtual safety car and Gasly was able to overtake
Alexander Albon for ninth on the outlap.
Gasly set the fastest lap in the closing section of the race with his
fresh tires, but was unable to keep it when championship rivals Alfa
Romeo had Zhou pit very late specifically to target fastest lap. That
point thus went unrewarded in what promises to be a very close midfield
battle this season between the two teams.
“Thanks guys,” Gasly said on his team radio on the cool down lap. “We
had a really good strategy, really good pit stops. It was fun, nice
racecar. If we started further up the grid, we’d fight for better
points, but nice recovery. Got some work to do, but it’s a good start
[to the season].”
It was a very stark contrast in fortunes for the two French teammates,
who also may or may not have a bit of a rivalry that stems from their
karting days. 2023 will be a 23-round boxing match between the two
drivers, and the first went pretty decisively in Gasly’s favor.
Alpine as a whole left the first race of the season sixth in points with
two, slightly below Alfa Romeo in fifth with four.
The next round of the Formula 1 season comes in two weeks time. Lights
go out in Jeddah for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on May 19, 2023 at 1
p.m. Coverage by Sky Sports will be broadcasted on ESPN.
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