Official: Gasly, replacing Alonso in Alpine and De Vries, in AlphaTauri

It’s official. As MD advances, this Saturday Pierre Gasley announced his departure from AlphaTauri and his signing by Alpine by 2023 (with a “multi-year” contract) in full Japanese F1 GP, before the start of the second day at Suzuka. And with it another announcement that is an open secret: The arrival of Dutchman Nyck de Vries to AlphaTauri with Yuki Tsunoda.

After many weeks of waiting, the predictions finally came true. Pierre Gasley he had what he wanted: he was leaving AlphaTauri despite having a contract for next year, is convinced this is the step he needs to take in his career as he finishes his sixth season with the team from Faenza. In 2019, his chance to step up to Red Bull came too early, but the pressure was able to cope with a pilot who was too green.

His accidents at the beginning of the course and his lack of results, with a painful direct comparison to Verstappen who burned him at the wheel of a car completely built for the Dutchman, they made Red Bull take down the AlphaTauri again in the middle of the season. far from sinking, since then Pierre proved to reappear. He showed courage, head, character, personality and above all: speed. But the arrival of ‘Czech’ Perez and how well the Mexican fulfilled his role as Verstappen’s number 2, closing the doors to a second chance.

Fed up with this wait, now Pierre bet on another path, as Carlos Sainz did in his time, seeing that he was not promoted at Red Bull, he made another future by going to Renault and then at McLaren, where he exploded definitively. . The example of Carlos is the one that Pierre Gasly wants to follow when he arrives at Alpine with a difficult ballot, covering the absence of Fernando Alonso, who will go to Aston Martin. The French team lost a lot in this move, although what was important to them, to secure their future with two young drivers, was real. Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, both 26 years old and French, in a French team. The ‘blue’ army of F1. Because of this, Alpine is committed to putting all its eggs in the same basket, the French, due to its commercial goals, something that it also does not seem to win with the replacement of Gasly for Alonso.

Ocon’s partner, with whom the relationship is strained

Another doubt is to see how Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon will get along in the same team. Both remember their karting careers and it’s no secret that they don’t have a good relationship. Alpine has united two drivers fighting to become French icons in F1 in the same team. A rather dangerous cocktail.

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De Vries is fulfilling his dream with AlphaTauri

Since winning the Formula 2 title in 2019, he has had his Formula 1 dream put away several times, but so far this opportunity has not come. Finally, in 2023, Nyck de Vries will compete for AlphaTauri. The Dutchman, part of the Mercedes program since 2019, went to the Formula E star team, where he became champion in his second year in the electric class. Now, at the age of 28, he has entered the umbrella of Red Bull, a great rival of Mercedes, after last season those from Brackley tried to find him a seat at Williams for this year, although without luck.

Red Bull is happy with Gasly’s comfort, as it wants a guaranteed driver to replace a Pierre who no longer wants to stay with his team. Although AlphaTauri is a platform for promotion to F1 for young Red Bull promises, the seat next to Yuki Tsunoda is for a Dutchman who is coming to F1 at the age of 28.