Nationality: French
Birthday: 7 February 1996
Current team: Alpine
Previous teams: Toro Rosso/Alpha Tauri
Number: 10
Strengths: Qualifying pace, midfield experience, great occasional highs
Weaknesses: Race pace, loses motivation at times, makes mistakes under pressure
Strongest tracks: Brazil, Mexico, Monaco, Azerbaijan
Weakest tracks: Australia, Italy, Austria
Statistics
Grand Prix wins: 1
Pole Positions: 0
Fastest laps: 3
Podiums: 5
World Championships: 0
F1 teammate record H2H
Total Q record: 111-65
Total R record: 99-76
| Team mate | Q record | R record |
| Colapinto (2025-26) | 16-6 | 13-8 |
| Doohan (2024-25) | 6-1 | 5-1 |
| Ocon (2023-24) | 24-20 | 21-22 |
| Tsunoda (2021-22) | 32-10 | 29-13 |
| Kvyat (2019-20) | 19-6 | 14-12 |
| Verstappen (2019) | 1-11 | 1-11 |
| Hartley (2017-18) | 13-9 | 14-9 |
| Sainz (2017) | 0-2 | 2-0 |
Pre-F1 championship results
2nd in Super Formula (2017)
Won GP2 (2016)
8th in GP2 (2015)
2nd in Formula Renault 3.5 (2014)
Won Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 (2013)
Career analysis
Pierre Gasly had an impressive, although not spectacular, junior career. He always seemed to improve with age. He was by far the best driver when he won GP2 in 2016, only challenged by Antonio Giovinazzi. Since Gasly wasn’t initially promoted to F1 – he first spent a year in Super Formula, winning two races and finishing second just a half point after winner Hiroaki Ishiura.
At the end of 2017, he finally got his chance in F1 and Gasly instantly delivered. In both qualifying sessions and races, he performed well next to his primary teammate Brendon Hartley, and was thus promoted to Red Bull in 2019, a move that proved to be premature.
Gasly struggled next to Max Verstappen and was demoted back to Toro Rosso after a half season. We wonder if Red Bull now regrets not retaining Gasly, as every teammate since him has struggled equally against Verstappen.
One of the admiring qualities of the Frenchman is that he didn’t break down in the face of defeat. On the contrary, Gasly has improved quite a lot since his fall from grace at Red Bull. He won his first race in surprising fashion at the 2020 Italian Grand Prix, at a track that’s usually a weaker one for him. Gasly followed up by having an incredible 2021 season, often qualifying his Alpha Tauri deeply into the top 10 and scoring solid points throughout the year.
When a seat opened at Alpine, Gasly went for it and hasn’t looked back. He performed roughly equal (or slightly superior) to Esteban Ocon, often being the stronger of the two in qualifying, and was ultimately the driver Alpine decided to continue with.
Gasly is very strong over a single flying lap, an okay racer, has a lot of midfield experience and can get a top result when conditions are right. Gasly rarely disappoints when the car is solid. He also knows how to set up the car quite well.
It’s still uncertain if he would perform well for a top team, due to his struggles under immediate pressure. But he should have sufficient pace to at least be a quality number two, and it would be great to see Red Bull give him a second chance next to Verstappen, or perhaps Ferrari signing him as a second-driver to Charles Leclerc once Lewis Hamilton retires.
For now, Gasly has to compete against Franco Colapinto. A battle that he won easily in 2025 although he had a brief period where he didn’t seem to care, so that inflated Colapinto’s score in the H2H stats. Gasly is expected to win it by a larger margin in 2026, considering that Alpine should improve with the new Mercedes deal.
