It was another strong Saturday for AlphaTauri as Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda made Q3 once again. Gasly starts in P6 for Sunday's race as he seeks to grab a good race result following a terrible race for himself and the team in Qatar when they fell back through the field and lost 25 points to Alpine. 

Although he gained a good position for tomorrow’s race, the Frenchman couldn’t avoid the fact that this was a very hard session. Gasly commented soon after quali ended: “It was very very good to qualify among the first six. But I can’t avoid the fact that today was a little bit more difficult. I didn’t feel very comfortable in the car and I struggled with balance for the whole time of the session”.

Pierre Gasly missed P5 [where the Mexican Sergio Perez will start the race from], by just 2 milliseconds. He said:” It is frustrating that I didn’t catch P5 by just 2 millisecond, but in the end I’m happy with my work and the lap I did. It is a good position for the start tomorrow and I will try to take home some points”.

On what he expect from his race tomorrow: “We expect it to be not an easy one for us tomorrow, but it can’t be worse than Qatar,” [where he dropped from P2 and finished his race in P11], “There it was really painful. I expect tomorrow to be slightly better but still we’ll have to fight, clearly, with the cars around us.”