Gasly didn’t know extent of damage before crash in F1’s sprint at Monza

Pierre Gasly says he didn’t know how damaged his front wing was before crashing out on the opening lap of Formula 1’s sprint race at Monza.
Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) McLaren MCL35M leads Lando Norris (GBR) McLaren MCL35M, Pierre Gasly (FRA) AlphaTauri AT02 and Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W12 at the start.
Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) McLaren MCL35M leads Lando Norris (GBR) McLaren MCL35M, Pierre Gasly …
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Gasly once again impressed in qualifying ♛but his hard work was undone immediately.

The Frenchman ta🥀pped the back of Daniel Ricciardo’s McLaren into Turn 2 on the opening lap, damagin𓆉g his front wing in the process.

As Gℱasly turned right at Curva Grande, the front wing detached itself and got stuck under his car, meaning he couldn’t turn and was sent into the barriers.

“Disappointed but physically OK, he said. “Obviously, very, very disappointed because the start was great with the mediums. I managed to go alongside Lando and also Lewis and in th𝓡e first corner, I got surprised a bit with Daniel. I didn’t anticipate enough, I touched him a little bit and then the front wing just broke.

“I didn’t see 🌟how bad it was… after that, it just went under the car in Turn 3 and I went straight into the wall and I couldn’t turn anymore and went straight into the wall.”

Even though Gasly expects to start the race from the pit lane, he believes a top 10 finish is still possible, although he’s concerned about the la🐼ck of overtakꦇing opportunities at Monza.

“That’s the target,” Gasly added. “P14, P11, P12, P❀18 is the same thing, you go back home with zero points. We will do ꦏeverything we can to at least score a point tomorrow. Obviously watching the race from the outside, which is not nice but it can give you some ideas.

“Unfortunately, I haven’t seen one single overtake so I don’t know. I will probably watch the race again tonight and see what happened. It seemed really difficult to overtake so we need to understandღ why and what we need to do to improve that. Probably start from the pit lane tomorrow.

“It’s a much longer race, start next to the winner of the day so it’s not all that bad. We will try 🅘everything to come back.”

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