At 28 years old, the Norman will take a step forward during this Brazilian Grand Prix by entering the very closed circle French drivers having taken 150 Grand Prix starts. Pierre Gasly will thus join Jean Alesi (202 starts), Alain Prost (199), Jacques Laffite (180), Romain Grosjean (179), René Arnoux (165), Olivier Panis (158) and Esteban Ocon (153).
Arrived in Formula 1 during the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix replacing the Russian Daniil Kvyat at Toro Rosso, Pierre Gasly then drove for Red Bull, Alpha Tauri and has been a starter at Alpine.
In 149 races, Pierre Gasly climbed four times on a Formula 1 podium. In Brazil in 2019 where he finished 2nd and became, at 23 years, 9 months and 10 days, the youngest Frenchman to get on a podium. At Monza in 2020 where, at the wheel of his Alpha Tauri, he won the Italian Grand Prix. In 2021, it was in Baku, Azerbaijan, that he reached the third step of the podium, a performance he repeated in the Netherlands in 2023 at the wheel of an Alpine.
Currently 16th in the 2024 World Championship with four grand prix remaining at the end of the season, Pierre Gasly will be at the wheel of an Alpine again next year with his number 10 in reference to his idol, the footballer Zinedine Zidane.
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