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Gasly persuaded bosses to introduce upgrades early

Pierre Gasly apparently persuaded his Toro Rosso bosses to introduce the new upgraded Honda power unit for the Canadian Grand Prix. The Frenchman ultimately had to run an old engine after a detected fault in practice, whilst teammate Brendon Hartley achieved 12th in qualifying with the new unit. Gasly said he wanted a new engine in his car for qualifying despite that meaning he would take a penalty. “I pushed everyone. I pushed with Franz [Tost], I pushed with Jonathan [Eddolls, chief race engineer], I pushed with [Toyoharu] Tanabe [Honda technical director], I pushed everyone. “I said I want the new engine in the car because otherwise, it would just be a difficult race. Better...
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