Pierre Gasly admitted his final FIA Formula 1 World Championship season with Scuderia AlphaTauri was not the season he was hoping or expecting, with the Frenchman scoring only six top ten finishes across the twenty-two races.
After two consecutive seasons finishing inside the top ten in the Drivers’ Championship, Gasly slipped to fourteenth in 2022, with his points tally dropping from one hundred and ten points in 2021 to just twenty-three.
With new aerodynamic regulations coming into force in 2022, AlphaTauri were one of the teams who struggled to get the best out of their car, with the AT03 being a struggle to drive throughout the season. And those struggles ensured Gasly endured a much tougher season than he was hoping for.
“From my side, what I can feel, it’s more the fact of working and trying to maximise a car which didn’t have the same potential as 2021,” said Gasly to Motorsport.com. “It’s not easy, also trying to keep the motivation in the engineering room, with the guys trying to keep the focus of everyone to minimise the mistakes.
“Because at the end, even if you do the same sport and the same season, the dynamic is quite different, especially last year was amazing for everyone, and we had the most successful year.