Qualifying: 13 – 9 After the highs of 2020 and ’21, this year’s championship was a reality check for Pierre Gasly while Yuki Tsunoda can be grateful for Franz Tost’s three-year theory. But as team-mates the AlphaTauri pairing were let down by their AT03, its lacklustre single lap pace and poor reliability. The team in turn could respond to that by saying they were let down by their drivers being involved in one too many crashes. The Faenza squad largely went unnoticed this season with their results nothing to write home about, a scattering of points for both drivers, Gasly bagging six top-ten results with a best showing of P5 at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix; Tsunoda racking up four with his best a P7 at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. With two retirements, one in fact a non-start given Tsunoda’s car broke down on the way to the grid in Saudi Arabia, team boss Tost admitted the team was “two steps behind”. It was deficit they were never able to recover from, not helped by crashes … [Read more...] about Pierre Gasly v Yuki Tsunoda: Two drivers in desperate need of fresh starts