F1: Alpine achieved its first points with Pierre Gasly

The French rounded a good weekend in Baréin, after a great classification, was seventh and opened the account of the French team in the season. Jack Doohan ended up far.

Alpine arrived in Baréin as the only team without points of 2025. Japan’s career had been for oblivion and hopes in Sakhir, the fourth date of the season, they were not great. However, the French team was able to turn the taba from the seventh place of Pierre Gasly and left Zapatero thanks to those six points with which Sauber’s line matched.

The Frenchman had a huge performance in the classification and secured the fourth place of the grill after the sanction that the Mercedes received. In the race, the Normandy pilot remained in rhythm within ten and ended up signing the final place. Despite how much the performance means to raise the morale of the Team de Estone, Gasly was a bit sorry because she lost the sixth place in the final lap with Max Verstappen.

“I don’t feel like talking about Verstappen, ”Gasly joked in statements to the French environment Canal+.” I am a bit disgusted with the last round. But I think we have to put things in perspective and calm our emotions a bit. It is true that I gave a lot during the last 15 laps to try to keep it behind and that I could not enter DRS area. But there were always parts of the circuit in which he was faster, ”he explained.

“The team did a great job, Very good stops in boxes, very good strategy. We were performing all the time, so there are definitely many positive things to get out of this race, “he added.

During a good part of the race, the team got to excite the possibility of adding with its two cars, but Jack Doohan lost a lot of performance in the last laps of the race. The Australian rhythm went notoriously up with the worn hard tires, but they had the same life as those of Gasly, who battled until the end with Verstappen.

Doohan was ninth to ten rounds for the end and lost with Yuki Tsunoda, Oliver Bearman, Kimi Antonelli and Alex Albon. Thus, it fell to 13th, which was finally 15th for a five -second sanction that he suffered for exceeding the track limits twice. The 500cc Pentacampeon son remained far and lost a good chance to score.

Meanwhile, Franco Colapinto worked as a team from the Estone Simulator. The Argentine was almost four hours on Friday working simulations to improve the performance of the A525 on track, a function that will repeat next weekend during the Saudi Arabia GP, where Paul Aron will be again as a reservation.