Pierre Gasly has renewed a multi-year contract with Alpine

The French Pierre Gasly has renewed at Alpine with a multi-year contract of unspecified durationbut it will extend “beyond” the 2025 season, according to a statement from the Formula 1 team.

“I’m excited about what the future holds, and now I’m focused on the day-to-day details that we implement to improve our performance,” said the pilot in statements released by Alpine, this Thursday.

At 28 years old, Gasly has a history of 140 races in the category, of which 32 were with the French teamwhere he is running in his second season, where the two podiums achieved in the “sprint” of the 2023 Belgian Grand Prix stand out, where he ended up in third place, and in the Dutch Grand Prix race the same year when finish in the third place.

The Frenchman, who acknowledged that this year on the track “has been a challenging season so far,” stressed that he always wanted to “develop a long-term project” and expressed his happiness “with the changes made and the hard work . “

“I am happy with the changes that have been made, the hard work and the direction the team is going. There is a lot of potential in the personnel and resources of this team,” he said.

For his part, Bruno Famin, team director, expressed his satisfaction with the renewal of the driver and underlined the ambitions of the team and that they are working “tirelessly to achieve them”.

“While this is important for our future, we must be attentive to what is to come and that is to focus on improving our current car. We have high ambitions this season and we will work tirelessly to achieve these,” commented the director admitting that they will “take time” to decide on Pierre’s partner after Esteban Ocon’s departure from the French team at the end of the season, but that they are “excited” about the options they have.