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Gasly was overwhelmed by emotions on the podium.
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Twelve years and a name change later, Red Bull’s second team, AlphaTauri, is celebrating one of the biggest upsets in Formula 1 history in the same venue. The unexpected first victory of Frenchman Pierre Gasly on Sunday at Monza enchants the industry. A renewed promotion of the 24-year-old is not a problem today.
Gasly, a Red Bull youth program driver, seized the opportunity at the Monza classic as Sebastian Vettel in 2008 and hit the best after a special race and some weaknesses. He had previously been unsuccessful in the illustrious circle of greats: after his PhD from Toro Rosso, now called AlphaTauri, to the stronger sister team Red Bull prior to the 2019 season, Gasly was demoted that same summer due to disappointing results, replaced by Alexander Albon. Gasly had to return to the smaller racing team.
On Sunday, Gasly secured 10th place in the standings and a valiant defense against the pursuit of Carlos Sainz jr. moved back to the foreground. As the first Frenchman since Olivier Panis in Monaco in 1996, he won the premier class. “I said that a Frenchman finally has to win a Grand Prix again. It’s crazy that he is,” said the now eighth World Cup.
Two of the four podium spots for the construction team, which emerged in late 2005 from the Minardi team, which had existed since 1985, are now owed to Gasly. Last year he finished second in Brazil, Daniil Kwjat also ranked third in Germany in 2019. When asked about a possible return to the single team in 2021, the Red Bull interworld traveler said: “I think I’m ready. But it’s not up to me to decide. “
Helmut Marko stopped. “That’s not a consideration at the moment,” emphasized the Red Bull Motorsport consultant, although Alexander Albon shows weaknesses in the only team. “Gasly is one of the Red Bull drivers, he’s currently with Alpha Tauri and he’s doing a great job there. But we also need a team leader there.” Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen was unable to make up ground on World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton (7th) due to a failure (engine problem). Marko was upset about missing a “great opportunity in the world title fight” offered “on a silver platter.”
As in 2008, the RB junior team achieved the coup in Monza. The Italian-Austrian team, led then as now by the Tyrolean Franz Tost, celebrated the prestigious victory at home that Ferrari would have liked to repeat. But the Scuderia in red suffered a total loss with the failures of Sebastian Vettel (faulty brake line) and last year’s winner Charles Leclerc (Parabolica accident). Since Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger in 1995, this has not happened at the heart of the entire life of motorsport in Italy.
Vettel summed up his emotional state in ORF with Austrian dialect: “I mog nimma,” the burlap puffed. What happens to your motivation after these cheap shots? “I am fit. There is no problem because I am not driving any races. I finished after ten laps and I am already in qualifying after Q1,” Vettel recalled. For one thing, this saves energy. “But it looks a little different on the head,” said the four-time world champion.
For now, Vettel and Ferrari must continue to lick the wounds. The situation is difficult not only for him, but for the whole team. “Of course I suffer too.” Already next Sunday, Mugello’s race offers the opportunity to make amends or the next debacle.
Hamilton finishing seventh was not due to the recent ban on party mode, but to an error unknown to the team. After a safety car phase, Hamilton became the leader in tire change, although the pit lane was closed. As punishment, he had to stop there again for ten seconds, and returned to the end of the field.
Hamilton’s 90th career victory was over, but that only paved the way for those moments that made the “Telegraph” the “best race of the year”, Gasly “beat reason” (“AS”) and in a F1’s invigorating “surprise party” (FAZ) culminated.
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