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Gasly was coming up 18th-placed Hartley on fresher tyres at the midpoint of the race, and ended up pitching his teammate into a spin as he attempted to get past down the inside of the Turn 14 hairpin.
The clash resulted in what ended up a race-changing safety car and was swiftly followed by a penalty for Gasly, who was eventually classified 18th to Hartley's 20th.
Speaking to media after the race, Gasly made it clear that he believed Hartley had been instructed to let him by – and that he was caught by surprise when the Kiwi turned for the corner as normal.
"They told me on the radio 'okay, Brendon is going to let you pass, at the end of the straight'. So I expected him to let me by, I went on the inside.
"I expected him to leave me a bit of space to turn, and finally when he started to turn like normally and I was on the inside, was too late and there was nothing I could do.
"I tried to brake and avoid him, was way too late, we made contact and basically that was it.
"It was a shame, because of course the last thing you want is to have contact with your teammate, just a shame, but I think we misunderstood each other.
"I expected him to do something and he probably expected something else
Replace Hartley with who exactly? It may not be possible for a while. He can still turn his form around.techman wrote: ↑15 Apr 2018, 11:42not the best result but however if you compare this to melbourne. it seem rain in practice and they get their setup wrong but bahrain all sessions were hot and they got their setup spot on. so iam bit dissapointed but hopefully there is no wet sessions in baku and we should be ok. with the new upgrade coming that will be a bonus.hartly sorry no race pace , he should be replaced.
Dude, we get your point lol First it was McLaren's draggy chassis comment, then it was the Red Bull mid-season switch to Honda and now it's the let's kick Hartley out commenttechman wrote: ↑15 Apr 2018, 11:42not the best result but however if you compare this to melbourne. it seem rain in practice and they get their setup wrong but bahrain all sessions were hot and they got their setup spot on. so iam bit dissapointed but hopefully there is no wet sessions in baku and we should be ok. with the new upgrade coming that will be a bonus.hartly sorry no race pace , he should be replaced.
i have to admit it STR performing well is something tempting for me , but RBR is the target, as far as we can tell the PU is up there and improving as well .. Mercedes fans can't be angry for FI and Williams not top 3 materials.Marti_EF3 wrote: ↑15 Apr 2018, 12:32The major issue here was they fu**ed up with the Car Setup, Honda seems to be at least reliable and not so far behind Renault. This GP the fault was the Team not doing a right setup, because they changed it between FP2 and FP3, and there was no time to revert it for Qualifing. So I hope they learn from this mistakes and do better next race