Gasly: ​​”An incredible victory, my AlphaTauri flew”

Happy, incredulous and even a bit of a prophet in his homeland. Frenchman Pierre Gasly, however, who settled for about a year in Milan, attracted by the fashion and comfort of the proximity to the team’s headquarters in Faenza – the AlphaTauri is the ‘old’ Toro Rosso – wins the GP from Italy in Monza. . It does so thanks to an early pitstop with which he dodged the crazy variables – safety car and red flag – that upset the script of a race that seemed to be heading towards the success of Lewis Hamilton. “It’s incredible, I don’t even realize what happened – says the Frenchman, but now Italian by adoption -. It was a crazy race, we were able to take advantage of the red flag and take advantage of it. The car was fast and with In this team I have gone through many emotions in the last 18 months: podium and now victory, I struggle to realize it.

Thanks to the team

Then the thanks: “I have no words to explain, I cannot thank everyone who works in this team enough – added Gasly -. Since I came to F1 my goal was to lead France back to victory and this success, for a Frenchman, it had been a long time away. ”To be exact 24. Big congratulations also from his team manager, Franz Tost:“ I am very happy because we won, the team has been competitive since free practice 1 – said the Austrian – Gasly He did an extraordinary race, he didn’t make any mistakes even though we were lucky with the tire strategy by stopping one lap before the Safety Car. Gasly controlled the race after Hamilton’s penalty managing to manage the lead over Sainz who I was winning steadily in sector one, while Gasly took 3-4 tenths of a second in sector 2. It was just fantastic.

Sainz

Behind him Carlos Sainz, a future Ferrari driver, who ended up in the wake, disappointed by the opportunity that was lost a bit: “I only lost one lap, a pity. It was a great result, but I am also a little disappointed – him said the Spanish McLaren – It seemed incredible to be able to fight for the victory and in a normal race I would have been very happy: I had a bit of bad luck with the safety car and probably without interruption I would have finished behind Hamilton, but we were super fast at all times . on weekends and proud of the rhythm of the car. ”

Walk

Lance Stroll closes the podium with Racing Point: “It was a crazy race, I hadn’t been on the podium for a couple of years,” says the American. I could have done something else but I had no grip at the start and I lost a few positions, but I am happy with this third place: victory is not far away ”.