The 26 -year -old French pilot decided to join the tricolor stable from 2023, for several seasons. He joins his compatriot Esteban Ocon and replaces the Spaniard Fernando Alonso.
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In 2023, there will no longer be a France Grand Prix on the F1 calendar, but the Alpine stable will be stamped 100 % tricolor. As has been scheduled for a few weeks, the Pierre Gasly driver signed “for a few seasons” in favor of the team from the manufacturer Renault. “I have been received by people who have a huge desire to work with me and it’s reciprocal,” he rejoices. They showed me how much they wanted to build the future with me. The fact that It is French, it is specially emotionally … “
At 26, the Norman joins another Norman of the same age, Esteban Ocon. His arrival compensates for the departure of the former Spanish world champion Fernando Alonso, who decided, in early August, to join Aston Martin, upset the plans of Alpine. After the incredible refusal of his reserve pilot, the Australian Oscar Piastri, to take over despite a first announcement in this sense of the French brand, we had to find another solution. And the marriage between Gasly and Alpine seemed obvious.
On the one hand, the stable offers one of the most efficient and promising pilots on the set, which she knows is immediately able to score points. On the other hand, the pilot leaves a less efficient stable, Alpha Tauri, for a better caliber. If the 2021 season had been good for Pierre Gasly – 9
More time to wait
But leaving Alpha Tauri was not such a simple decision to take, because it meant leaving the Red Bull group. The Italian stable indeed belongs to the Austrian giant, whose team has in its ranks the Dutch world champion, Max Verstappen, heads for a manufacturer’s title in 2022 and currently dominates F1. “It is a real career choice and an extremely exciting transition, I closed a chapter of nine years with Red Bull, summarizes Gasly. It was a long relationship with all my successes in the lower categories, these five years in F1 with The podiums and my victory [at the Italian Grand Prix in September 2020]. “
Since its beginnings in Formula 1, in September 2017, in the modest Toro Rosso, Pierre Gasly has crossed ups and downs, like his only success in Monza, of his promotion at Red Bull in 2019 and finally of its demotion the following season. Blocked by the very likely future double world champion – Verstappen could be crowned this weekend in Japan – and by the extension of his teammate Sergio Perez (a two -year contract until 2024), the young Frenchman had No more time to wait for us to give him his luck.
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