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Pierre Gasly believes Red Bull can take the fight to Ferrari

Pierre Gasly believes Red Bull "can take the fight to Ferrari"

12-05-2019 08:28
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Pierre Gasly looks to be feeling more comfortable at his new team and managed to finish qualifying in 6th place at the Spanish Grand Prix. The Frenchman is confident that he and his teammate Max Verstappen will be able to challenge the Ferrari's during the race and has targetted finishing high in the points. 

“Today was pretty positive, and it was a decent qualifying with sixth," he said to The Checkered Flag. "We knew after Free Practice 3 it would be tough and we thought Ferrari would make a bigger step in qualifying, but Max was just a tenth behind Vettel and I was around a tenth behind Charles, so we’re a bit closer than we thought.

“For sure Mercedes is extremely quick but I think we have a decent car and hopefully we can take the fight to Ferrari tomorrow.

“It could be an interesting race with the option for a one-stop or two-stop, and anything can happen at this track where we know the start is really important, so we’ll try to maximize that for tomorrow.

“There’s still a lot of work to do, but overall things are getting better and I think the work we’ve been doing since the beginning of the year is starting to come together and pay off. Hopefully, tomorrow we can get some good points.”

Gasly will hope for a good start and hope that he can challenge those ahead of him and prove that he is worthy of a place in a top F1 team.