Gasly hopes Bahrain inspires success again after debut flop
Gasly hopes Bahrain inspires success again after debut flop
Pierre Gasly hopes returning to the scene of his finest Formula 1 performance to date at the Bahrain Grand Prix can help him get off on the right foot with Red Bull at the second time of asking after a frustrating debut in Australia.
Gasly finished outside of the points at Albert Park, having suffered a Q1 elimination in qualifying as a result of a strategy blunder and then getting stuck behind the Toro Rosso of Daniil Kvyat.
However, Sakhir was a much happier hunting ground for the Frenchman last year as he scored a fourth-place finish for Toro Rosso – Honda's best result of the hybrid era until teammate Max Verstappen scored a podium in Melbourne.
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And Gasly takes confidence from last year's successes as he looks to rebound.
"Bahrain is one of my favourite races," he said. "I achieved my best result in Formula 1 there last year with fourth place, so for me Bahrain brings back a lot of emotion and it has a real positive energy.
"Not only that, but I also had my best qualifying there with sixth, and I started the race from fifth so I have good memories.
"Naturally, you relate places with the emotions you've experienced there so Bahrain sits top of my list as one of the best.
Some positives & negatives to take with us from Australia. Not the outcome we wanted obviously but practices were good, then qualifying clearly cost us a lot & made our Sunday difficult to recover on such a track with couple issues.
— Pierre Gasly ???????? (@PierreGASLY) March 18, 2019
We will bounce back in Bahrain. pic.twitter.com/jdHYYMAPdu
"I'm really looking forward to going back, this time with Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, and especially after a tricky weekend in Melbourne last time out.
"We've seen our car is competitive and I like the track in Bahrain so I can't wait to jump back in the car and get to work."
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