It's difficult to describe the season of the Alpine. The French team, after a rather uphill start, she managed to recover race after race, managing to obtain very important results – like Esteban Ocon's podium a Monte Carlo, but consistency still seems to be a small problem for the Enstone team.
Not an easy start
Pierre's vintage should be monitored gasly. The French pilot, after saying goodbye the AlphaTauri in 2022, he was one of the greats watched for the start of 2023. His season, at least at the moment, cannot be considered strongly positive: the exploit or that possible leap in quality that is expected from someone like him has still been missing. Last weekend, in Canada, it certainly wasn't easy for Gasly: following the impediment suffered by Carlos Sainz, the Alpine driver was forced to start from seventeenth - which later became fifteenth following Stroll's penalty - position. The expectations, coming into the race, were certainly not high and in the end this was the case: Gasly finished twelfth, thus missing the points.
Gasly already at four power units: penalties around the corner
If Gasly on the track for now offers ups and downs, it must be said that the Fantasy Managers will have to be very careful if they want to buy him or not: Gasly in fact, with the problem with the gears during FP1 in Canada, has mounted the fourth power unit on its A523. Let's talk of the last unit that can be used without incurring the penalty. In fact, if Gasly were to mount the fifth power unit - being the first replacement not permitted by the regulations - he would have to serve ten penalty positions on the starting grid. A great risk also for those who, among the Fantasy managers at FantaF1, choose to buy him and include him in the team.
Permane reassures: “He will end the season with four units”
However, there is also good news. At Alpine, in fact, based on the statements reported by Motorsport.com Italia, they are quite calm that Gasly will end up will be able to end the season with only four power units used. This was stated by the team's sporting director, Alan Perms: “They told me from the Power Unit department that we won't be installing any more. I know it's very early in the season, but this is the situation. Gasly has enough drives to get him through the rest of the year. There are people much smarter than me who deal with drive splits and mileage and horsepower degradation, and all that kind of stuff. But at the moment the plan is to continue the rest of the season without assembling other units".
