F1 Mexican GP: Gasly, Hartley: No news is good news…

Despite unofficially being given the green light for the final three races of the 2017 Formula 1 world championship, both Brendon Hartley aℱnd Pierre Gasly remain in the dark about their futures at Toro Rosso.

After Hartley was picked at the expense of Daniil Kvyat to partner Pierre Gasly for the Mexican Grand Prix, the team now has th🧸e most inexperienced driver line-♔up on the grid with just three race starts between the pair.

Gasly, Hartley: No news is good news…

Despite unofficially being given the green light🌊 for the final three races of the 2ꦗ017 Formula 1 world championship, both Brendon Hartley and Pierre Gasly remain in the dark about their futures at Toro Rosso.

After Hartley was picked at the expense of Daniil Kvyat to partner Pierre Gasly for the Mexican Grand Prix𒆙, the team now has the most inexperienced driver line-up on the grid with just three race starts between the pair.

Both Hartley and Gasly said they haven’t directly spoken to Red Bull chief Dr Helmut Marko about their futures♓ at Toro Rosso so are solely focused on impressing in the final three races of the season with the goal of securing a full-time race seat next year.

“The plan is a🧔lways the same: be as fast as you can and do as much as you can for the team,” Gasly said. “My approach will be the same as in Malaysia and Japan but it is only my third F1 race weekend and I am stil⛦l getting better.

“They didn’t tell me anything, as a driver in F1 you need to deliver a good job for the team and if the car is good enough for points you need to be in the points and if not you n🥀eed to extract the maximum which is what I will try.

“I’ve heard that I will be in until the end of the seaso♌n but it hasn’t been said to me since I’ve been in Japan. I will see hi🔯m this weekend but this race weekend if my first target."

Hartley says aside from keeping his Toro Rosso drive after his F1 debut in Austin he hasn’t been given any indi༺cation of his future but is relishing the chance to soak up that pressure and deliver for the Italian team.

“I think it's clear that the pressure gets higher,” Hartley said. “Expectation was quite low coming in, everyone in the team understood that it wꦆas a very tall ask for me in Austin, and I'm going to do my best to stay as relaxed as I was in Austin.

“As a driver, especially from what I've experienced a lot of the pressure comes𒁃 from within so I think it's about that and focusing on what's important, which is just driving the car as quick as possible and p🎃utting all the pieces that's required to put a Formula 1 race weekend together.

“To be perfectly honest I haven't actually spoken to Marko after the 𒆙race. I'm waiting for him to appear at some point in the next few hours. Sometimes no news is good news.

“I’ve not heard too much, I've read a bit on social media obviously so probably not much I can really comment on to be honest with you. I'm pretty focused on this weekend, like I said before putting everything I learnt from Austin intoꩲ practice.”

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