168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly suffered damage to his Alpine F1 car after an unfortuna🌼te incident during first practice at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

The Frenchman was the star of Friday practice at Imola as he backed up his sixth-quickest time from FP1 by ending the day with the third-fastest time in FP2, just 0.276s behind McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri.

𓆉But Gasly did suffer a setback in the first practice session when🍎 he accidentally hit a rabbit, which caused damage to the front wing and floor of his Alpine.

“Very sadly, I coul🐠dn’t tell if i💝t was a small cat or a big rabbit - it turned out it was a big rabbit - just jumping across the track,” Gasly explained.

“I couldn’t avoid it so I had quite a big impact on the front wing, which, unfortunately that was it for t💫he rabbit and for the front wingꦺ it was not ideal.

“Not the end of the session we wanted.”

Asked how much damage was done, Gasly replied: “I must say it’s quite unfortunate. Obviously we always tr൩y to look after our parts and dಌo the best job we can, so when such things happen it’s not great.

“Quite a b🐟it of damage on the front wing and the floor but the guys managed to do great work to repair it. But I think🐲 we could have done without it.”

Gasly hails Alpine’s ‘best Friday’ this year

Despite the sad rabbit strike, it was otherwise a hugely positive day for Gasly, who was a surprise third, ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell’s Mercedes, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s Red Bull and both Ferraris.

While he acknowledged rival teams are likely holding some performance back going into qualifying, Gasly was nevertheless delig🦂hted by what he branded as being Alpine’s “best Friday of the year”.

“It’s been a very, very good Friday. F𒅌rom the first lap, I could tell the car was in a much better place than in Miami,” he sa🌄id.

“I’m glad we managed to answer 💖some of the question marks we had𝄹 after the last race. Very pleased with the feeling in the car.

“The car reacts the way I want and I’m really able to be at the limit and push it to the maximum, so it’s a nice feeling and the performance is 🐠there.

“We know from Friday to Saturday others usually 💝keep a bit more in the pocket but I think it’s quite fair to say it’s probably been the best Friday of the year.”