"At the moment, the tire sensor data keeps pointing to the tires having a much higher temperature in certain parts of the track, even compared to Tsunoda in the same car, and sometimes by more than ten degrees difference.
So, we can be sure that it is not a fully car-related problem, but we are still going to look into what was the cause of it before we deal with it," the tire engineer said when Gasly, who didn't look pleased at all, had asked what was the cause of his tires degrading faster than even the initially expected window, which had led to his having a puncture that ended with him retiring the car from damages gained when he drove back to the pit to replace the tires.
There was a podium on the table, and the worst-case scenario was that they finished in P4, which would have been a quite welcome result and a good start to the season, but all of that went out of the window the moment the puncture happened.
