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Gasly 'pushed' to get new Honda engine in Montreal

Pierre Gasly has described how he wouldn't take no for an answer when it came to getting a new Honda power unit for the Canadian Grand Prix. The French driver had been fitted with a new engine for the weekend, but a technical issue with the power unit was detected before qualifying. As a result, the team switched out the new unit and replaced it with the older-specification one that he had been using in Monaco. The difference in power was such that Gasly ended up missing out on progressing to Q2. Switching back to the new-spec engine for the race itself meant incurring a ten place grid penalty, but Gasly was insistent that it should happen. "I said, 'OK, I want the new engine in the...
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