‘We made the wrong call’ – Gasly laments tyre gamble in Malaysia

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AI GeneratedThe driver reflects on a disappointing race result caused by a failed strategic gamble on slick tires. Despite showing good pace in qualifying, a combination of poor tire choice and ill-timed safety cars led to a poor finish, leaving the team trailing behind their competitors.
It just didn't work out today, did it, with the tyre choice?
Just talk me through that.
Sleek tyres, wrong tyres, stayed out.
The team was willing to take the gamble. I supported it.
We had a lot of time to think about it in the pit lane, waiting, waiting, waiting.
Unfortunately, we made the wrong call.
Once we went out there, you come back on your decision and try to make it stick and commit.
It was tricky. Unfortunately, it didn't work out.
It was one of these gambles.
We'll review how we could have come up with a better decision.
After all the safety car, Veltro safety car, everything went at the wrong time for us.
It was a pretty bad day.
On one side, though, the pace of the car has been good.
On the other side, it's another weekend where you've lost more ground to the racing bulls.
What do you say on that score?
Qualifying where we qualified yesterday, I must say it feels quite painful to finish where we were today.
At the same time, we've got to look forward and look ahead.
We know that we have some pace.
Today, I don't know exactly what happened.
The car felt very different to the quali.
There's still a few things we need to review, but it doesn't change our approach.
Next week, we'll try.
I don't even know what's the gap.
I'm not sure I want to know what's the gap with them, but we'll try to grab what we can.
