Pierre Gasly thinks it is often not fair how things work in Formula 1. According to the Frenchman, the cars make a big difference, which means it is far from always possible for drivers to make the difference. He tells Mashup.
Last season, the front and back of the driver field was usually predetermined. Where Red Bull Racing and Mercedes fought together for the front places, Haas, Alfa Romeo and Williams often failed to stay away from the back positions.
Although Gasly had an excellent season with AlphaTauri, in which he finished ninth in the world championship, he realizes better than anyone how difficult it sometimes is for drivers to compete with their car. That is why, according to Gasly, drivers are not always rightly criticized for their performance.
Gasly takes Hamilton as an example
In the interview, Gasly states that Hamilton would also be at a loss if he were at another team. "Even if Lewis is the best driver in F1 history, today, in a Williams or a Haas, he would finish last," Gasly judges. "It’s not even that he would be third or fifth, he would be 18th or 16th."
My m8 Jay's dad knows a bloke who's an F1 mechanic, I'll see if he could take a look, well if he's not too busy at the playboy mansion with Jay!!
Gassy, crying like a petulant little bitch, because he can't face the Reality, that he's just Not good enough, Sucks to be a perennial LISER
Gassy sounds like petulant 3rd Grader, NOTgood enough to Win, so he's crying like a little BITCH BOY , instead of committing to improving his Driving skills, Man up and FIX yourself Gasly
Hamilton did not asked to be born as mercedes driver nor any member of royal family asked to born into it. Hamilton went into mercedes when their best position ever was 4th place by Schumacher. Hamilton gambled to move to mercedes although their performance was not enough for trophy. He went in there to demonstrate what he can do and mercedes saw it, trusted him and invested in the team not on Hamilton. Hamilton went there to do what 99% of the drivers were not doing. So as the team. Gasly, improve yourself and be improved by your team.
It definitely sounds like gasley has a problem with Hamilton ,but I suppose if you dont end up at the back of the pack you get very annoyed with the leaders, so what you can do is become a better driver and maybe Mercedes or Red Bull will pick you to drive for them, let's face it would be better than becoming a whinging prick.
No question......Gasly is absolutely correct and in total honesty it doesn't necessarily have to be a HAAS or Williams. Hamilton has been spoon fed and we're all getting sick of his whining. And I know the Brits will carry on .........do you think he is better than Clark, Hunt, Moss, Mansell, Stewart, etc?? Be honest with yourselves - Hamilton is like stale chips...........always leaves a terrible taste
I guess Hamilton always had the best car and Kart. Lewis Hamilton earned the drive he has ...what the others should do is to be exceptional in whatever they drive like what Hamilton has done
Gasly is totally right, look at Kimi. He was around for 20 years and was only able to grab 1 world title. Put Kimi in the Mercedes and probably would have had just as many as Hamilton.
Well Mr Gasly, 16th isn't last is it? But at least he's right when he said "Lewis is the best driver in F1 history,"
Wish they would make a separate 4 or 5 races in the season where the car and engine would be supplied by only 1 manufacturer for all drivers. Then just for those 5 races pethaps we could see who the best driver truly is.
It's not just the Lewis fans , but the entire British Media did try thier best at projecting Lewis . This is a sport , where things can go either way , unfortunately Lewis lost the Yas race and that is it ....
Have you forgotten HOW it was lost? The controversy behind iit? And that an FIA official broke rules that created a scenario as to why he lost it? Things can go either way, but some of those ways are not acceptable. Cheating, illegal cars, inept Race Directorw who listen to orders from teams etc etc. It's not that black and white unfortunately.
No Masi won, at the expense of the sport's credibility. RBR were just the beneficiaries of an early Father Xmas. But ok, just ignore the facts in your tiny mind.
Loving the bitching going on over Gasly's reference to SLewis. He just said what all F1 followers know to be true... The best driver in the world would not be champion if he/she wasn't also in a championship winning car. A half decent driver in a car with a competitive advantage could, but might not, win the championship, but a Schumacher or Alonso or Fangio or Senna wouldn't be champion in an uncompetitive car. But...please keep the negativity of the conversation going! Provides entertainment while having a dump!
This coming from a driver who had the same car as max. Just shows he was not good enough.
Actually he was good enough. He had Max soundly beaten in AD until Masi screwed and and literally changed the rules of the game.
Fact: The best drivers always ends up in the best cars. Fact: Gasley wasn't as good as Verstappen, that's why he got kivked out of RedBull
I think this is where Senna and Schumacher stand out above Hamilton. At times they dragged mid-field cars to the top of the field. And above them is Jim Clark who could get the best out of any type of car. I would love to see Lewis in a mid-field F1 or rally car. Or even a superstox with no radio for us to hear "Hey man, he keeps bumping into me"!
As Lewis has not had a midfield car, it's an unfair comparison. For all you know he might do just as well in those circumstances.
Typical frog, has to have beef at English people, you won sorry, was gifted the win the Lewis and verstappen's incident
There will always a "best" car (maybe 2). And the team will always get (or try) the best driver they can. Of you want it to be a pure driver's championship you're going to go to the extreme of: one chassis, one engine, one tire. Then it'll be the drivers, not the engineers.
He would still finish in front of his team mate (including if it was you)... If he feels powerless because of his car, he should ask himself why RB demoted him when he has his shot
I totally agree with gasly, lewis would finish down the order in the majority of races with maybe the exception of Monaco which would be achieved over one quali lap. We will see more next year when George Russel gets his chance to drive the new Merc. The main difference is that to win world championships you can't be a good driver, you have to be more than that. Bottas with all his number 2 status, still struggled to get anywhere near Lewis when it was not a track suited to the Mercedes.
Do you Hamilton groupies rub the belly of his statue in your shrine every morning?
Agree. No driver past or present will win with a Williams or haas from last season
But he was given the opportunity to drive for redbull 2 seasons ago, i didnt see him beating max or lewis.. they ended up replacing him with alex albon who didnt make an impact too
Is this not the same in any sport? Don't have the best equipment you generally can't excel. Daft comment gasly. Any f1 driver, rally driver, motorcycle rider is generally the same. Some ride round issues but comparing Haas.... ?
We would never be in that car, not possible for a guy as smart as him. Gasly needs to move on urgently, RBR and AT are history now. He should unlink himself and the doors would open, he is definitely material the top teams would consider...
Gasly was always barely in the points in a red bull while Max was on the podium. The driver makes a big difference. Obviously the car counts for something. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out
Hamilton is so bad he couldn't defend a SINGLE lap, as Pérez did (against him) previously. One day fanboys will stop crying and will start to review how Hamilton actually won several of his championships: cheating. In 2007 he stole the championship at the last lap and I don't see the fanboys complain.
He didn't win in 2007 although he missed out by 1 point in his ROOKIE year, stop talking nonsense, as if it was LH's fault that it rained and Glock had slicks on. 2008 btw his second year in F1 !!
I get the point he is making, but that's just how it is with F1. And actually, if Lewis was in a Williams, once he was used to fighting with crappy tools, I think he'd be beating at least Haas (or vice versa if in a Haas). Plus he'd be helping them improve their car as much as possible.
Just like yourself Pierre . If YOU were driving a Haas or Williams YOU would finish last.
He did that in a red bull so yes, he would do even worse in a haas
Gasly’s speculation is utterly pointless and perhaps Pierre must focus on his.own lack lustre performance after 4.5 years. After Hamilton arrived at Mercedes in 2013, he added value and consistent “GP winner driver” suggestions. From Merc being 5th @ WCC 2012, Lewis & Rosberg ensured Merc success with a 2nd WCC rank in 2013. Re Williams, Bottas & Massa “beat the living daylights”:out of those Williams cars btw 2014 & 2015. Williams did rank WCC 3rd both years, so they are formidable. Just lack focus and experienced drivers for guidance. Should, would and could = Williams speculation. Let’s see what golden boy Albon can do.
Pierre Gasly is right but even Michael Schumacher couldn't win a title in a Jordan Honda...And I remember that Gasly couldn't win in a RBR car a single race..
Hamilton's over rated for sure, he always had the best car ,But anyone can win in a Mercedes.
Bottas didn't and Rosberg won once over 3 years with so much pressure on himself that he had to stop. So, it's definitely not anyone and this is a fact
In the past 7 seasons, Hamilton didn’t need to be better than the other 19 drivers in the field to win the WDC. He only needed to beat his team mate. Between 2014 and 2016, he had a reasonably good team mate, whom Hami beat twice and was beaten once. Since 2017, he had absolutely no competition at all, with a team mate that can be classified somewhere in the mid field of drivers, at best. He finally gets a top notch team mate this year. Let us see if he is able to beat him or will get properly trashed, especially during qualifying.
The only reason Roseburg won only one title is because mercedes allowed him. Why do you think he retired after 2016. He knew mercedes won't back him again. Just look how Hamilton treated Roseburg during 2016 and Mercedes did nothing. Bottas on the other hand was a puppet. That's why Lewis liked him as a partner. Bottas started strong and faded the longer he drove for mercedes.
? and what about when Hamilton was winning with Alfa ??) He was given the seat in the faster car because he has proven himself to be the best man for the job... Lewis has been the underdog for the large majority of his career . Hamilton's career didn't start when he started driving for Mercedes...?
Yeah, I mean look at all of Bottas' world titles. 1996 Hill had the best car. Frentzen too and where was he? Shumacher 2000-2004 - Where was Barrichello? Hamilton is the real deal and his peers recognise it too so why can't you?
I've got one Pep Guardiola you are only leading the Premier League because you are in Man City. If you were in Norwich city you wouldn't be leading the title race LOLOL
No way Sherlock's, in a Williams or HAAS no driver would win a title, including yourself or Max...DUH. The job for a driver in a Williams or HAAS to do is to bring the car home in one piece, refine it and help with imporvements. What a stupid donkey, no wonder why he went to Uganda for a sponsor and found himself without a passport and without money. Clearly lacks common sense.
Another Hamilton fanboy got mad, just cause Hamilton name was used in example, that had actually nothing to do with Hamilton. What is wrong with you Hamilton fans? Like really.
Or Lewis hater got mad because I flipped the obvious out of the obvious. Depends on how you look at it, isn't it!
Hater is a word used by haters. You called Gasly a donkey just cause he used Hamilton name in a example, that I repeat, had nothing to do with Hamilton. Can't get much more hater than that really. Hate inside you is blinding you to read the most simple things without understanding the true meaning of easy sentences.
Gasly clearly mentioned Lewis as the best in the business , but even the best can't compete at the front with an inferior car .
How about gasly is a donkey for assuming any driver that is clearly better than him is only better because of their team. Real hater is gasly. Stop crying and making excuses and drive faster! Any driver that makes it to one of the top teams is there because they displayed a skill set that those teams value enough to contract that driver. And if you aren't that driver step your game up and stop crying
In your opinion where do you think Hamilton will end up if driving a Williams or haas.
What is a 'mc claren' ? Perhaps something you can buy at Mc cDonalds? :)
For Lewis fans Williams would have been at their 80s glory if Hamilton had driven for them . Not to forget the fact that Lewis moved to a Merc team when they were not doing so good.
Why are you getting everybody in the basket?Is he too much for you?"What is wrong with you Hamilton fans?No man,handle your man don't get us in the mix .
No, there is no other way to look at it. You are a looser.
If you're ever going to call someone a 'loser'. You at LEAST have to spell it right. Haha.
He wasn't referring to me, LOL! Also it's "But" not "Butt, it's "doesn't" not "does't" and in this context it's "you're" not "your". I guess you just got pwned by a loser :)
Wasn't about winning the title it was about FINISHING LAST. Lewis would undoubtedly beat his teammate and probably beat the 2nd or 3rd worst team on the grid fairly regularly and thus NOT finish last. No idea how you got from last to winning championship.
This is exactly what Gasly said, but he just mentioned the name Lewis ...
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