Pierre Gasly has admitted he is surprised by Red Bull\u2019s challenging start to the new season under the new technical regulations.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
During the pre-season period, Red Bull was tipped as a front-running contender despite entering with its own power unit for the first time in collaboration with Ford.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, once the campaign got underway, it quickly became apparent that the team was not part of the group fighting for victories.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
With four rounds completed, Red Bull is yet to score a podium, and its lacklustre form has not gone unnoticed by former driver Gasly.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Bahrain, I was sure that they were part of the top four battles,\u201d Gasly told media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking at Australia, they looked pretty strong there. I think they hit the ground in a very good way.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cBut for whatever reason, after that, it was a lot more difficult. It’s been quite surprising.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Red Bull\u2019s upgrades in Miami earlier this month marked an improvement for the car, as Max Verstappen secured a season-best fifth-place finish.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, team-mate Isack Hadjar crashed out early in the grand prix, leaving him with just one top 10 result from the opening four rounds.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Despite the difficult run, Hadjar remains confident he can return to form when the sport resumes in Canada next weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe both, the team and I, made mistakes this weekend,\u201d\u00a0Hadjar said. \u201cIt’s been, honestly, a bit of a disaster from both our sides.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to stick together and see what we can do the next weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Obviously, we’re happy there’s more performance in the car. It’s not such a pain now to make it to Q3, which it was the first few rounds.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, yes, let’s just look at the positives and we come back in Canada and hopefully we do a strong one.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pierre Gasly has admitted he is surprised by Red Bull\u2019s challenging start to the new season under the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668674,"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-668673","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\/668673","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=668673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}