Pierre Gasly says AlphaTauri's post-race analysis after Qatar has helped it understand the tyre degradation issues that plagued his race last time out. Gasly was left shocked by his massive underperformance at Losail where he had qualified fourth and started his race from the front row thanks to grid penalties handed to Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas. The Frenchman suffered a poor start on Pirelli's soft compound tyre and was forced to pit for fresh rubber as soon as lap 12. But an unavoidable two-stop strategy left him stranded outside of the top ten at the end of the day. "It was pretty shocking and disappointing after our best Saturday of the year, but we had signs on Friday...
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