Both Alpine, against the wall at the Australian Grand Prix. That was the sad ending for Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon this weekend in the restart of the final section, which was canceled due to the case that occurred in the first curves of the circuit.
The FIA investigated several incidents, the most notorious being the sanction of Carlos Sainz for touching Fernando Alonsoand decided not to punish Gasly for ‘closing’ his teammate against the wall.
A relief for the Frenchman, on the verge of losing a race for his license. This is how the FIA excused itself: “The stewards listened to the driver of car 10 (Gasly), to the driver of car 31 (Ocon), to a representative of the team and reviewed the data of the positioning / gear system, the video and the tests of video in the car and determined that it was a racing incident in the first round.”
“Both cars recognized and accepted it as such. Given the circumstances, we take no further action“, sentenced the organization, leaving this action without any punishment.
Gasly is in danger and for now he could be in Azerbaijan. At the limit of the penalty, which would be a great inconvenience for Alpine.
The French team has had a horrible start to the season. Its two pilots have only added 8 points in three races, one more than Haas and two more than Alfa Romeo. They are the sixth team far from the lead, despite all the optimistic messages they sent in preseason ensuring that they could even compete against Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin.
