The pair made contact early within the race, leaving Gasly with diffuser harm that value him downforce and lap time.
The FIA stewards regarded on the incident, however opted to take no motion. Explaining their resolution they famous: “Automobile 10 locked its entrance proper tyre into Flip 6 leading to that automotive approaching the activate a barely completely different line at a barely decrease velocity, which was clearly sudden by the driving force of automotive 44.
“Automobile 44 made mild contact with the rear of automotive 10 within the flip. The stewards decide that no driver was wholly or predominantly guilty.”
Gasly, who just a few laps after the contact was additionally left annoyed by a technique name that dropped him behind team-mate Esteban Ocon, ultimately completed thirteenth.
“It wasn’t my day,” he mentioned on Sunday. “A lot of the harm was finished when Lewis got here behind my automotive and simply destroyed the entire diffuser behind it. After that I used to be shedding a whole lot of factors of downforce.
“I braked late. I used to be stunned that he went even later – he would have gone straight if I wasn’t there. I began to have a little bit of entrance graining, I locked up a bit, however nonetheless made the nook.
“I feel he simply missed the braking level, after which mainly ran up the again of my automotive. It was fairly an impression, and it was simply sufficient to interrupt and lose some elements of the diffuser. So not nice.”
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Pierre Gasly, Alpine
Requested in regards to the lack of any penalty, he mentioned: “I imply, it is harsh, as a result of on one facet, I can lose 15-20 seconds of race time. Nothing, for instance, of my management. So on one facet it is onerous.
“On one other facet, yeah, he made a mistake and got here behind my automotive. So it is a powerful one. Nevertheless it clearly value me quite a bit right this moment.”
Gasly insisted the decision that led to Ocon getting forward was improper, whereas conceding that factors remained out of attain anyway.
“Clearly I wasn’t proud of the technique name,” he mentioned. “And this will probably be reviewed and we made a mistake and I am positive we’ll study from it.
“It mustn’t occur, I feel, the main automotive all the time has precedence. And we all know it mustn’t occur. I am positive we’ll study from it. I am positive it will not occur once more.
“However then with all of the downforce I used to be shedding, [we’re] speaking four-tenths a lap for 40 laps, perhaps there was a P10 to battle for with [Lance] Stroll, however I do not suppose there was far more than that right this moment. So, not the simplest race to complete the yr.”