Alpine took a small step ahead final week in Austin.
The workforce introduced a collection of upgrades for the A524 to the Circuit of the Americas, and the outcome was their strongest qualifying session of the season. Piere Gasly stormed into Q3 — typically topping the timing sheets in each Q1 and Q2 — and finally certified in seventh.
He was promoted to sixth on the grid because of a pit lane begin from George Russell, and whereas he didn’t end within the factors, it was an indication of progress for the workforce.
Alpine is now hoping to construct off that progress this upcoming weekend on the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix.
“I’m wanting ahead to getting straight again to it in Mexico Metropolis this weekend. The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez is a really distinctive monitor being at such excessive altitude,” stated Gasly within the workforce’s media preview. “The skinny air means we now have to run with excessive downforce wings however the automobile nonetheless feels mild to drive and we hit among the highest speeds of the season down the lengthy fundamental straight. It’s a really totally different problem to Austin however we are going to do our greatest to make use of every little thing we realized in Texas in regards to the automobile and have a stronger weekend.”
“I’m wanting ahead to returning to Mexico Metropolis this weekend. It’s an thrilling circuit with a mega environment. The most effective components for all of the drivers is the packed stadium part, it’s all the time actually particular to drive by means of there and it will get me much more hyped earlier than the beginning of the race,” added Ocon. “The monitor is nice to drive and the automobile handles in a different way to almost in every single place else on the calendar due to the excessive altitude. We are going to use our learnings from the upgrades in Austin to extract as a lot efficiency as potential to maximise the weekend.”