Yas Marina (United Arab Emirates) (AFP)
Romain Grosjean (Haas) and Pierre Gasly (Toro Rosso) far from the points, Renault which confirms a disappointing fifth place in the constructors, return on the fate of the French during the last Grand Prix of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi Sunday:
. Gasly "disgusted"
Initially hit by the Racing Point, the driver Toro Rosso was stuck all the race at the back of the pack and must be satisfied with the 18th and penultimate place. "It sucks because we had a good pace, a good car, we had worked well all weekend, there was clearly the potential to make a good result," reacts the Norman. "Disgusted", Gasly has "for now not want to think" to the record of a season ended in seventh place among the drivers, at a point of the sixth, the Spaniard Carlos Sainz Jr (McLaren), and three lengths ahead of the Thai Alexander Albon, who replaced him at Red Bull during the summer. We can still remember the resilience of the 23-year-old, who rebounded from his return to Toro Rosso, even offering himself an unexpected first podium in Brazil in mid-November (2nd).
. A race in the image of a "failed" season for Grosjean
Fifteenth on the Yas Marina circuit and for the 18th time out of the points in 2019, Grosjean can only see that there is "no miracle" in a car "very capricious, very complicated". "This is the toughest season (in the young Haas team's history, Ed.) It's a failed season, it's a missed opportunity when they were there," he says. "I think this season we had zero chances and we must say that next year it will be better", wants to believe the 18th in the drivers' standings with only eight points. "I think that, for my part, we must work departures, concludes the 33-year-old driver.With the engineers, we will sit down and try to understand each time, I lose places so necessarily that do not help us, we're wasting a lot of time. "
. Renault disappointing fifth among builders
Fourth strong on the set in 2018, Renault set itself the goal of maintaining this position this season while getting closer to the first three teams. With a fifth place in the constructors at 54 lengths of the fourth McLaren (that the French brand motorizes) and six lengths only before the sixth Toro Rosso, the goal is not held. In race Sunday, the Australian drivers Daniel Ricciardo and German Nico Hulkenberg were eleventh and twelfth. At the end of the contract, it will be without flying next year. By way of goodbye, he was elected driver of the day by the fans. "Hulk" will be replaced by Frenchman Esteban Ocon in the end-of-season trials, still in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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