Gasly: No one is happy with the performance but no worries

With rumours mongered in recent weeks that he was on his way out of the Red Bull team, Gasly was asked ahead of the Grand Prix weekend at his team's home race if he was concerned about his future, to which he replied, "No not really."

"At the moment clearly no one is happy and I'm the first one not happy with the performance. As a racing driver I feel really far from showing the potential that we have and that's not pleasant."

"It's never easy, but you need to find the solution. At the moment there are a couple of things we can do better, my side as well, that I can do to suit that car better. It's all about working together."

Eight races into the season, the stats for the #10 car are not pretty as Gasly trails his younger teammate by 63 points, and the score is 7-1 to Verstappen in qualifying and has yet to finish ahead of the #33 car this season.

Gasly continued, "If you're up against the best drivers in the world in the best cars in the world you have to have everything at 105 per cent. You cannot leave one per cent on the table, everything has to be perfect.

"There are several areas where I can improve and we are all working towards the same goal and same direction. Is it going to pay off this weekend, two weekends or three weekends? I don't know. But for sure we want to perform better and be as fast as possible."

After a reasonably impressive season with Toro Rosso, last year much was expected from the 23-year-old but he has struggled to be comfortable in a car that is tricky to drive.

He explained, "There are a few things you can do in the cockpit to go around it and I still have a few things to do better. We are working because no one is happy with the result."

"I'm the first one not being happy because [he] can't extract the full potential for different reasons, but we are all pushing in the same direction and hopefully it's going to pay off this weekend and in the next few races."

While wild rumours have linked Nico Rosberg to Gasly''s seat, the more believable option for the fizzt drinks brigade is to promote Daniil Kvyat back to the senior team as the Russian seems to be a transformed warrior, calmer and more mature.

But the Russian was not drawn into speculation when asked about the possiblity of a promotion, "I just do my job. I'm the driver and I drive the car. Right now I drive a F1 car for Toro Rosso and that's the job they hired me to do right now. If things will change that we will react accordingly."

Famously Kvyat - a hotshot with a bright future not long ago - was himself demoted from Red Bull when he underperformed four races into the 2016 and then booted from the programme a year and a half later.

He was offered a simulation driver role with Ferrari which he embraced and appears to have taken a crash course in maturity a his results show in this his second, or is that the third, shot at the top flight.

Asked to compare his situation at the time with Gasly currently, he said, "Things were different for me back then. It's hard to say how every driver feels, they're different situations... it's very hard to compare these kinds of things."

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