Horner: Gasly crash “frustrating”

Gasly put in a decent performance two weeks ago at Silverstone finishing a best fourth to his Formula career but dealt himself a blow as he crashed his car at the final corner of the Hockenheimring.
 
The Frenchman last control of the rear of the car going into the corner and slid into the barrier, wrecking the left side of his RB15.
 
Gasly came out of the car uninjured but Horner called it ‘frustrating’ to lose car at that time of the session.
 
Horner said to Sky Sports F1: “It’s early days, we need to get the chassis back and have a proper look at it first.

15 minutes before the end of FP2

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“Yeah…unfortunately it was around about a 10G impact and you can see it has done a bit of damage. Thankfully [he wasn’t using] his race gearbox or race engine.

“It’s just frustrating really to lose the car at that point of the session.

“Off the back of a good result at Silverstone, this is not the best start to the weekend. But it’s only free practice and we will get the car rebuilt tonight.

“It’s an annoying accident. But it is what it is, we cannot change it now and we just have to get on with it.

“It’s a shame after a confidence boosting weekend in Silverstone to now have that incident here.”

Horner added that while Ferrari were looking like dominant team during practice, he was encouraged by the pace Max Verstappen had set after using old tyres.

“You have to remember both cars had a numbers issue on their out laps, on the new tyres,” Horner added.

“So neither of them got a proper new tyre run [during the qualifying sims].

“So Max did that time on a scrubbed set of tyres which is actually quite encouraging. I think there a few more tenths in there on a brand new set of tyres.

“Hopefully we can work hard overnight and close that gap, but it’s Ferrari who look like the dominant team again.”

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