Pierre Gasly was slammed by F1 pundits Martin Brundle and Ted Kravitz for a ‘dangerous’ decision at the Monaco Grand Prix. The Alpine driver locked up and ploughed into the back of Yuki Tsunoda during the first half of the race, and his left-front wheel was left hanging on by a thread.
Rather than immediately stopping the car, Gasly limped back to the pits and left a trail of debris which, according to Brundle and Kravitz, posed a dangerous risk to the other 19 drivers out on track. Gasly informed his team that he had lost all brakes, and mechanics had to stop the car manually once the Frenchman made it back to the garage.
But Brundle suggested that he should have headed straight down one of the escape roads rather than continuing on. “You are obliged to park it,” the former F1 racer told Sky Sports. “He will be in a lot of trouble for that.”
Kravitz added: “That was so not on, and so dangerous for everyone else. I think that will be a penalty for Gasly, or Alpine, or both. He should not have continued on.”
Tsunoda was caught completely by surprise when he felt Gasly smash into the back of his Red Bull and then fly through the Nouvelle Chicane. “Is he an idiot?” the Japanese snapped over the team radio. “What is he doing?!”
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