Pierre Gasly has expressed hope Alpine can put pressure on McLaren and Ferrari after the summer break this year.<\/p>\n
Alpine sacrificed its 2025 campaign to focus its resources on 2026 and the construction of its car under a fresh set of technical regulations.<\/p>\n
It has bagged 15 points across the opening three rounds courtesy of Gasly, leaving the team fifth in the constructors’ standings.<\/p>\n
Like the other teams, Alpine is using the ongoing April break to carry out work at its factory as it looks to resume the season in strong fashion.<\/p>\n
But Gasly has placed a target on the summer break later this year as a timeline for Alpine to make the next step.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen over the course of one month,\u201d Gasly told the media, including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I’d like to see ourselves, after the summer break, being a bit more of a player in that group with McLaren and Ferrari.<\/p>\n
\u201c[In Japan], it was seven seconds over 28 laps, [so] you’re looking at three or four-tenths [per lap].<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where we need to look. We know what we\u2019ve got to improve, which is good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having switched from its own Renault power unit to a Mercedes engine this year, Gasly outlined it is one significant factor it no longer needs to worry about.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know we don’t need to care about the power unit, we get the best of what’s out there,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to just focus on our chassis and what we do. We\u2019ve got a good package, [but] we\u2019ve got to make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pierre Gasly has expressed hope Alpine can put pressure on McLaren and Ferrari after the summer break this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-632948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}