Gasly managed to overtake Charles Leclerc in the pit stop phase in fourth place after losing to Red Bull’s Sergio Perez at the start.
The Frenchman suffered a loss of performance in the middle of the race, so that Aston Martins Sebastian Vettel flew by.
Despite suffering in the final laps, Gasly managed to keep Leclerc in check and take his third F1 podium.
“I don’t really know what to say,” said Gasly. “It was such an incredible weekend. P4 in qualifying, P3 in the race and it was such an intense race, especially at the end. And it was very difficult, I think, from the middle of the race we had an engine problem – I lost power on the straight – and couldn’t be as fast as at the beginning of the race. and then Seb started to catch, he passed me on the straight and I knew it was going to be difficult.
“Just in the last two laps I knew I would be in a difficult position to defend my position on Charles right behind and that is exactly what happened. All straights he was right there. He actually overtook me before Turn 1 and yes, I saw the podium right in front of my eyes and just gave everything I could. In the end, I made it happen.
“It was an intense fight, but that’s exactly how I like racing. It was very tough, but fair and yes, I’m very happy that the guys got this podium together. “
On the subject of matching items
Gasly isn’t sure why AlphaTauri performed so well in Monaco and Baku.
“I think all in all we had the pace to be in the top five,” added Gasly. “I kept up with the top guys at the beginning of the race with the option of soft tires, whatever, and then, yeah, after that the pace wasn’t bad even on hard tracks until we had this problem and started fall back. ”A little behind, but all in all a lot of question marks, if things are going bad, you have to understand – but if things are going so well?
“We don’t really understand why we were so fast all weekend. We also need to understand because if there is anywhere where we can reproduce this kind of performance. “
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