Pierre Gasly feels Alpine’s pace is “not mil🍸es 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Doohan failing �🐈�to break inside the top 10 in Australia, China and Japan.

Gasly’s best result so far in 2025 is an 11th-place finish in Melbourne, while under-pܫressure 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 faile💝d to score a single point until the six൲th round of the season in Miami.

However, while Gasly admitted that Alpine ha🎀s work to do to move up the competitive ordꦜer, he feels the team is not that far off from its first points finish of the year.

“There were a few things to analyse,” Gasly said after Suzuka. “It felt like we actually di꧅d everything I could from inside the car.

“We had a small i꧑ssue at🌊 the pit stop, which I don’t know what happened yet but we’ll review.

“Then ultimately, we lacked a little bit of pace to be in that t⛎op 10. It wasn’t mi🐻les away, 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 tꦿhe year.

Alpine put on a strong show at the Sakhir venue during pre-season testing in February, with Gasly setting the ninth-fas෴test time across three daysꦏ 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 fir🔜st three weekends on a track we know.

“The good thing is that w⛄e get to race again next week, so we’ll try to get these point𝓰s 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aston Martin’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll, he finished the race more than a minute off the lea🎃d 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 o🐭ur best chance for an undercut. It wasn’t 🦄the fastest overall race time, but we were able to get that undercut, which was great.

“But it pu✤t us i🐼n a difficult position with about 25 laps to go when the hard tyre was giving up.

“We did a good job to keep 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:[Nico] Hulkenberg behind, not enough with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos [Sainz] o𓄧n those newer softs. All in 𓆉all, 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 import𝔍ant for Alpine to get its first po𝄹ints on board as early as possible.

“I can’t wait for it and we’v✃e 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.”