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Gasly: P6 was the best we could do

14:53, 13 Apr 2019

byJake Williams-Smith

Pierre Gasly says sixth place was the best he could have hoped for after a difficult start to his Red Bull career.

Gasly moved from Toro Rosso to the main Red Bull team for 2019 but has had a slow start to the season compared to his teammate Max Verstappen.

Although he was out-qualified by Verstappen once again, Gasly said he was happy with P6 and was positive about his prospects in the race.

”Driving F1 cars is probably the best job in the world, so I cannot really complain about anything," he said.

"I think today was pretty good, it was still difficult to drive the car and I’m still not 100 percent happy with my driving, but P6 was probably the best we could expect today.”

“I have some areas to improve but I had a better feeling with the car than last weekend. We now know what we need to improve on and I know what I can do on my side. I had a different strategy than the top five with the soft tyres today, so let’s see how that works tomorrow.”

“For sure we know the degradation on the softs can be a bit tricky, but anything can happen at this track. We saw it last year with Daniel and again in qualifying today when it was hectic on the last run. Max was fast all weekend so now we both need to focus on the race.”

“We will push flat out and I really hope we can get some good points. I think we’re in a good place to start the race and I’m excited for tomorrow.”