GASLY FACING A ONE -RACE BAN FOR RACE DISCRETIONS
AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly will race with the threat of a one-race ban hanging over him until May next year.
The one-time F1 race winner, who is due to join the Alpine team in 2023, picked up a further point on his race licence when he was deemed to have strayed outside track limits in a battle with Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll at the recent Mexican Grand Prix. It means he now has 10 black marks on his race permit and they last for one year. Should he get a further two points, he will be forced to sit out a grand prix. The first licence points he can lose are in May 2023. “They [the stewards] seem to be quite harsh lately,” the driver told Autosport. “I think it was quite tight
[in Mexico], and I don’t know why I wasn’t really given a message to give the position back. At the end of the day I try my best inside the car, and the last thing I want is to get stupid penalty points and lose race time. At the moment they are not happy with what I’m doing, so I will have a discussion to understand exactly what I have got to change.”
The Frenchman was angered at gaining a penalty in the Japanese
Grand Prix for speeding as he happened across a rescue vehicle on the track after a red-flag stoppage.