Pierre ♊Gasly feels Alpine’s pace is “not miles away” despite a dreadful start to the 2025 Formula 1 season.

The Alpine A525 proved uncompetitive in the opening three flyaway races of the year, with both Gasly and newcomer 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Doohan failing to break inside the top 10 i𝓰n Australia, China and Japan.

Gasly’s best result so far in 2025 is an 11th-p🎶lace finish in Melbour💝ne, while under-pressure Doohan is yet to finish higher than 13th in his short grand prix career.

This has put the Renault-owned squad🧸 in a similar situation to 2024, when it failed to score a single✃ point until the sixth round of the season in Miami.

However, while Gasly admitted that Alpine has work to do to mಞove up the competitive order, he feels the team is not that far off 🐓from its first points finish of the year.

“The🔯re were a few things to analyse,” Gasly said after Suzuka. “It felt like we actually did everything I could from inside the car.

“We had a small issue at the pit stop, which I don’t know w❀hat happened yet but we’ll review.

“Then ultimately, we lacked a little bit of pace to be in that top 10. It wasn’t miles a🅷way, but it generally felt like we were lacking a bit🅠 of pace.”

With the Japanese GP now complete, F1 heads to Bahrain this weekend as part of the first triple header of th🥃e year.

Alpine put on a strong show at thཧe Sakhir venue during pre-season testing in February, with Gasly setting 🥂the ninth-fastest time across three days of running.

Asked about the French team’s prospects at the 5.4km circuit, Gasly said: “I think it is going 𝄹to be good to reset after the first three weekends on a track we know.

“The 🎶good thing is tဣhat we get to race again next week, so we’ll try to get these points next weekend.”

The 2025 season has proved to be a baptism of fire so far for Doohan, whose future at Alpine is under threat following the team’s decision to sign 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Colapinto as a reserve driver.

At Suzuka, the Australian had to vacate his car in FP1 for another Alpine reserve, Ryo Hirakawa,♌ and his day ended early after he crashed the car at Turn 1 after failing to close the DRS.

Qualifying 19th on the grid, only ahead of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aston Martin’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lance Stroll, he finished the race more than a min💜ute off the lead in 15th place.

Asked to sum up his outing in Japan, ꦿDoohan said: “I think we can’t be unhappy. Very limited running as is the obvious, and no high-fuel running coming into the🌄 race, so it was a little bit of a step into the dark.

“We went super aggressive on the strategy, which gave us our best chance for an undercut. It wasn’🐓t the fastest overall race time, but we were ab🔴le to get that undercut, which was great.

“♏But it put us in a diffic𝕴ult position with about 25 laps to go when the hard tyre was giving up.

“We did a good job to keep 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:[Nico] Hulkenberg behind, not enough with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos [Sainz] on those newer softs. All in all, we’re still not where we want to be, but 🦩for myself this weekend, we can’t be too unhappy.”

Like Gasly, Doohan stressed that it’s important for Alpine t🐼o get its first points o♒n board as early as possible.

“I can𝓀’t wait for it and we’🅠ve just got to keep working together as a team, keep pushing and get these points,” the 22-year-old said. “That’s what’s important.”