Alpine “expected” to be knocked out in Q1 in F1 Italian GP qualifying

Gasly could not better 17^th  place in Saturday’s session, while his team-mate Esteban Ocon was one place and just 0.003s behind.

Gasly, who finished third in the rain-affected Dutch GP last weekend, admitted that the A523 simply wasn’t fast enough on Monza’s straights.

“Unfortunately, all weekend I was quite happy with the car balance, but we’ve just been two seconds off the pace the whole time,” he said when asked by Autosport about…