F1 Racing Australia - May 2018

WORDS STUART CODLING

PHOTOS PETER J FOX/GETTY IMAGES

LEARNING

JAPANESE

For many young drivers hoping to ride a moneyed

wave of high-energy carbonated beverage to the peak

of motor racing, the Red Bull Junior Team has proved

to be a ghastly business. Now, indubitably, it’s Pierre

Gasly’s business, for he is the latest young talent to be

thrust onto the F1 stage by this most demanding of

up-or-out mechanisms – presided over, as ever, by Red

Bull driver consultant, former F1 driver Helmut Marko.

Students of history would determine that the signs

aren’t good: in over a decade of separating the wheat

For Pierre Gasly, having

Honda power in 2018

means more than just

adapting to a new engine.

His experience of racing

in Japan may give him a

technical edge with Toro

Rosso’s new partners...