Gasly accused Magnussen of pushing him off the monitor and in contrast the Haas driver’s escape from any sanction with the reprimands that Max Verstappen received for two impeding incidents in qualifying.
These verdicts got here as a shock to drivers and groups who’re used to seeing grid penalties for such offences and led to questions concerning the consistency of stewards’ choices.
Gasly, who confronted a string of penalties in 2022 and at one stage was near receiving a race ban, has questioned stewards’ choices previously.
“I simply requested if he can push somebody off the race monitor after I’m going to go him, I’m going to offer him somewhat nudge and do the identical,” he stated of his battle with Magnussen. “I’m not going to open the subject – it’s simply, make it black and white.
“I used to be fairly stunned [after qualifying] and once more on Sunday. I don’t absolutely perceive the regulation. I learn the rules, I do know the rules, however then it doesn’t at all times translate to what occurs on the monitor.
“However to be honest, it didn’t change my race. I obtained the very best out of it so it was tremendous however a few occasions it’s simply unfair to me.”
He added: “It is perhaps the way in which I have a look at issues, I don’t know. I’ll have a dialogue [with the FIA] as a result of to me it’s simply, I don’t absolutely perceive.
Kevin Magnussen, Haas VF-23, Nico Hulkenberg, Haas VF-23, Pierre Gasly, Alpine A523
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“I’m not going to query extra etcetera, however I’ve had powerful choices towards me, with a six locations penalty in Barcelona this 12 months for impeding, and it was undoubtedly means lower than what I’ve seen yesterday. Possibly now that is allowed. I don’t know, I’ll ask.”
Relating to Magnussen’s feisty driving he famous: “He stated it earlier than the race, I feel he stated ‘I’m not going to make anybody’s life straightforward’, and clearly he took his phrases as they have been.
“I knew he was going to take it on the restrict. It was a couple of times barely over however on the finish, I completed P6, so I don’t actually care.”
Regardless of his considerations over the decision-making of the stewards’, Gasly was happy with Alpine’s on-track restoration from a torrid Italian Grand Prix, though a gearbox failure value Esteban Ocon priceless factors.
“We had such a tricky Monza,” he stated. “We knew why, we knew the monitor format didn’t favour us, but it surely was essential simply to get some type of efficiency and show it to ourselves. So that is what occurred.
“I feel each automobiles ought to have been sixth and seventh, it’s a disgrace for Esteban and lose a automotive and a few essential factors. However undoubtedly positive on Sundays now we have obtained the potential to be proper there, and that was Positive.”