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two races before getting the chop. Gasly, on the other hand,
suffered the ‘difficult car/difficult team-mate’ imbroglio:
driving an RB15 in which engine integration had taken
precedence over chassis dynamics andthus featured a narrow
performance window that Verstappen appeared able to wiggle
through but Gasly could not. The organisation is not unaware
of this and doesn’t go out of its way to be cruel, so parking him
at AlphaTauri benefits everybody inthe long run.
The counter argument is that Kyvat and Gasly are driving
for AlphaTauri because, if not them, then who? For many
years the Red Bull production line ran so smoothly that supply
exceeded demand. Such was the quality of the product, it was
easy to belulled into believing that this was a normal state of
affairs. High-quality performers such as Carlos Sainz decided
to look elsewhere because there wasn’t an obvious path to
advancement, while further down the pecking order drivers
such as GP3 champion Alex Lynn only saw a logjam ahead
of them. These things, however, are cyclical, and after the
feast generally there follows the famine. Sainz and Ricciardo
Kvyatisa
morerounded
driverinhis
thirdstintwith
theteam
Gaslyhas
reco vered
wellafterhis
bad spell at
RedBull
IN TERMS OF GRANDS PRIX CONTESTED
THIS IS, BY A CONSIDERABLE MARGIN,
THE MOST EXPERIENCED LINE-UP
THE TEAM HAS EVER ENJOYED
GP RACING APRIL 2020 73
two races before getting the chop. Gasly, on the other hand,
suffered the ‘difficult car/difficult team-mate’ imbroglio:
driving an RB15 in which engine integration had taken
precedence over chassis dynamics andthus featured a narrow
performance window that Verstappen appeared able to wiggle
through but Gasly could not. The organisation is not unaware
of this and doesn’t go out of its way to be cruel, so parking him
at AlphaTauri benefits everybody inthe long run.
The counter argument is that Kyvat and Gasly are driving
for AlphaTauri because, if not them, then who? For many
years the Red Bull production line ran so smoothly that supply
exceeded demand. Such was the quality of the product, it was
easy to belulled into believing that this was a normal state of
affairs. High-quality performers such as Carlos Sainz decided
to look elsewhere because there wasn’t an obvious path to
advancement, while further down the pecking order drivers
such as GP3 champion Alex Lynn only saw a logjam ahead
of them. These things, however, are cyclical, and after the
feast generally there follows the famine. Sainz and Ricciardo
Kvyatisa
morerounded
driverinhis
thirdstintwith
theteam
Gaslyhas
reco vered
wellafterhis
bad spell at
RedBull
IN TERMS OF GRANDS PRIX CONTESTED
THIS IS, BY A CONSIDERABLE MARGIN,
THE MOST EXPERIENCED LINE-UP
THE TEAM HAS EVER ENJOYED
