1. Pierre Gasly won his first championship at the Formula Renault Eurocup in 2013 with Tech 1.
91 Facts About Pierre Gasly
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Pierre Gasly then progressed to the GP2 Series, winning the championship in 2016 with Prema amid a close title battle with Antonio Giovinazzi.
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Pierre Gasly moved to Super Formula the following year, finishing runner-up to Hiroaki Ishiura with Mugen.
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Pierre Gasly completed a full-time move to Toro Rosso for 2018, before being promoted to parent team Red Bull in 2019.
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Pierre Gasly was demoted after the Hungarian Grand Prix, replaced by Alexander Albon; he achieved his maiden podium at the Brazilian Grand Prix that year with Toro Rosso.
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In 2020, Pierre Gasly took his maiden victory at the Italian Grand Prix whilst driving for the re-branded AlphaTauri.
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Pierre Gasly achieved a third podium for the team at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in 2021.
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Pierre Gasly moved to Alpine for his 2023 campaign, scoring his first podium for the team at the Dutch Grand Prix, repeating this feat at the rain-affected Sao Paulo Grand Prix in 2024.
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Pierre Gasly is contracted to remain at Alpine until at least the end of the 2026 season.
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Pierre Jean-Jacques Gasly was born on 7 February 1996 in Rouen, France, to father Jean-Jacques Gasly and mother Pascale.
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Pierre Gasly was raised Christian and routinely makes the sign of the cross to bless himself before races.
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Pierre Gasly's grandfather competed in karting, his grandmother a kart champion, and his father Jean Jacques has competed in various categories of racing including karting, endurance racing and rallying.
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Pierre Gasly's father stopped rallying when he 'fell off [a] mountain' after his co-driver made a mistake reading the pace note.
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At the age of six, Pierre Gasly first experienced karting at a local karting track in Anneville-Ambourville.
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Pierre Gasly was 13 years old when he left Rouen for Le Mans after his commitment for competitive racing.
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Pierre Gasly grew up alongside Anthoine Hubert; karting with him since the age of seven, being educated at the same private school and having resided together as roommates for several years.
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Pierre Gasly has been close friends with Charles Leclerc and Esteban Ocon since a young age.
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Pierre Gasly entered competitive karting in 2006 at the age of ten, when he finished fifteenth in the French Minime Championship, before he finished fourth the following year.
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Pierre Gasly moved into the KF3 category, staying until the end of 2010, when he finished as runner-up in the CIK-FIA European Championship.
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In 2011, Pierre Gasly made his debut in single-seaters, taking part in the French F4 Championship 1.6-litre category.
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Pierre Gasly finished third behind his future Eurocup rivals Matthieu Vaxiviere and Andrea Pizzitola with seven podiums, including wins at Spa, Albi and Le Castellet.
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Pierre Gasly moved to the 2-litre Formula Renault machinery in 2012, joining R-Ace GP in the Formula Renault Eurocup.
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Pierre Gasly finished tenth with six point-scoring finishes, including podiums at Spa and the Nurburgring.
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Pierre Gasly had seven starts in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup with the same team, taking a podium at the Nurburgring.
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Pierre Gasly took five podiums, as well as victories at Moscow, the Hungaroring and Le Castellet.
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Pierre Gasly held an eleven-point lead over Oliver Rowland into the final meeting at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, and ultimately clinched the title with third and sixth-place finishes; the latter result coming after a collision with Rowland, who received a drive-through penalty as a result.
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Pierre Gasly finished the season as runner-up to another Red Bull Junior Carlos Sainz Jr.
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Pierre Gasly made his GP2 Series debut in 2014 at Monza circuit in support of Italian Grand Prix, replacing Caterham Racing driver Tom Dillmann who had commitments at other racing series and was unable to participate in GP2 Series races for that weekend.
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Pierre Gasly then partook in post-season testing, driving for DAMS and signed with the French team to race alongside the British driver Alex Lynn, development driver of Williams F1 Team.
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Pierre Gasly switched to newcomers Prema Powerteam alongside 2015 European Formula 3 runner-up and GP2 rookie Antonio Giovinazzi for 2016.
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Pierre Gasly went on to become the GP2 Series champion that season.
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In December 2013 it was announced that Pierre Gasly would be inducted into the Red Bull Junior Team for the 2014 Formula One season alongside future GP2 Series teammate Alex Lynn and future Scuderia Toro Rosso teammate Carlos Sainz Jr.
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Pierre Gasly drove the Toro Rosso STR10 on the first day of the test and the Red Bull RB11 on the second day, recording 203 laps in total.
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Pierre Gasly continued testing for Red Bull and Toro Rosso during the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
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Pierre Gasly made his Formula One race debut at the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix with Toro Rosso, replacing Daniil Kvyat.
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Pierre Gasly finished the Malaysian and Japanese Grands Prix outside the points.
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Pierre Gasly returned to the team for the Mexican Grand Prix, partnering with Brendon Hartley after the team decided to drop Kvyat from the Red Bull programme.
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Pierre Gasly finished the race in fourth place after Kimi Raikkonen retired, earning his first points finish in Formula One.
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Pierre Gasly recorded four more points finishes during the season, including seventh place at Monaco and sixth place at Hungary.
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Pierre Gasly ended the season in fifteenth place in the championship with 29 points, comfortably ahead of Hartley's total of four points.
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Pierre Gasly was contracted to drive for Red Bull Racing for the 2019 season, partnering Max Verstappen following the departure of Daniel Ricciardo to Renault.
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Pierre Gasly scored points at the following six races but finished a lap behind the leaders at the Canadian, French and Austrian Grands Prix, the latter of which was won by Verstappen.
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At the German Grand Prix, Pierre Gasly retired after colliding with Alex Albon's Toro Rosso in an attempt to overtake for sixth place.
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Pierre Gasly came under increasing pressure at the Hungarian Grand Prix, where he finished sixth having been lapped by Verstappen.
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At this stage of the season, Pierre Gasly was sixth in the drivers' championship with 63 points.
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Ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, Pierre Gasly was demoted back to junior team Toro Rosso with Alex Albon taking his place at Red Bull.
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On his cool-down lap, Pierre Gasly remarked over the radio: "This is the best day of my life".
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Pierre Gasly ended the season seventh in the drivers' championship with 95 points; during his nine races back at Toro Rosso, he scored 32 points compared to 10 for teammate Kvyat in the same period.
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Pierre Gasly was retained by the team, along with Kvyat, as they rebranded to Scuderia AlphaTauri.
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Pierre Gasly achieved four points finishes in the first seven races of the season, with best results of seventh place at the Austrian and British Grands Prix.
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At the Italian Grand Prix, an early pit stop allowed Pierre Gasly to pass several drivers - who had to wait for the pitlane to open during a safety car procedure - promoting him to third place.
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Pierre Gasly was eliminated in a first-lap collision at the following race, the Tuscan Grand Prix.
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Pierre Gasly scored points at the next three races, including fifth place at the Portuguese Grand Prix, but retired with a coolant leak at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix having qualified a season-best fourth.
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Pierre Gasly finished the 2020 season tenth in the drivers' championship with 75 points, ahead of teammate Kvyat's 32 points.
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Pierre Gasly was retained by AlphaTauri for 2021, partnered by Japanese rookie Yuki Tsunoda.
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At the Italian Grand Prix, Pierre Gasly crashed out in sprint qualifying after he made contact with Daniel Ricciardo, wedging his front wing underneath his wheels.
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Pierre Gasly retired from the race on lap four due to damaged suspension.
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Pierre Gasly finished sixth at the Turkish Grand Prix despite a penalty for causing a collision with Fernando Alonso.
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Pierre Gasly started on the front row for the first time at the Qatar Grand Prix but finished the race outside the points.
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Pierre Gasly finished the season ninth in the drivers' standings with his highest ever points tally in a single season, scoring 110 points to teammate Tsunoda's 32.
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Pierre Gasly continued to race for AlphaTauri in 2022 alongside Tsunoda.
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Pierre Gasly scored points at the Saudi Arabian and Australian Grands Prix, but failed to do so at the following four races, which included retirement from a collision with Lando Norris at the Miami Grand Prix.
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Pierre Gasly was set to start the Belgian Grand Prix from eighth place, however an electrical issue shortly before the race forced him to start from the pit lane.
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Pierre Gasly had run in seventh place in Singapore, but complained that the team "threw away" this result by switching him to dry-weather tyres too early, dropping him to tenth.
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At the Japanese Grand Prix, Pierre Gasly criticised the deployment of a recovery tractor in wet conditions to extract Carlos Sainz Jr.
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Pierre Gasly received a penalty for speeding under the subsequent red flag and was demoted to eighteenth place.
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Pierre Gasly ended the season fourteenth in the drivers' championship, scoring 23 points to Tsunoda's 12.
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Pierre Gasly's move to Alpine for 2023 was officially announced in October.
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Pierre Gasly signed a multi-year contract to race for Alpine in 2023, partnering fellow Frenchman and former karting rival Esteban Ocon.
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AlphaTauri allowed Pierre Gasly to join Alpine for the post-season testing immediately after the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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Pierre Gasly was in fifth place when racing resumed after the second red flag at the Australian Grand Prix, but collided with Ocon at the first chicane, causing the retirement of both Alpine cars.
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Pierre Gasly later crashed in qualifying and failed to score points in the sprint or the main race.
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Pierre Gasly next scored a point at the Austrian Grand Prix, where he finished ninth but was dropped one position for track limits infringements.
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Pierre Gasly did not score in the main race, where he finished eleventh.
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Pierre Gasly crossed the finish line fourth but gained a place from Sergio Perez's penalty, earning his first podium in over two years.
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Pierre Gasly achieved four more points finishes before the end of the season, including sixth-place finishes at the Singapore and United States Grands Prix.
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Pierre Gasly started fourth at the Las Vegas Grand Prix but finished outside the points.
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Pierre Gasly ended his first season with Alpine eleventh in the World Drivers' Championship with 62 points, one place and four points ahead of teammate Ocon.
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Ocon had commented after pre-season testing that the team were "on the back foot" and Pierre Gasly described the Bahrain result as "not a surprise".
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Pierre Gasly finished no higher than 12th position at the Australian, Japanese, Chinese, Miami, and Emilia Romagna Grands Prix, failing to score points in any of those races.
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Pierre Gasly scored his first point of the season at the Monaco Grand Prix, coming in 10th position, and 2 points at the Canadian Grand Prix, coming in 9th.
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Pierre Gasly then went on to qualify in 7th for the Spanish Grand Prix, before finishing 9th in the main race, whilst grabbing another point at the Austrian Grand Prix.
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Pierre Gasly retired in the next two races at the British Grand Prix and Hungarian Grand Prix.
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Pierre Gasly bounced back at the Dutch Grand Prix with a 9th place and two points, before enduring a four race pointless streak across the Italian, Azerbaijan, Singapore and United States Grands Prix, qualifying sixth at the latter.
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Pierre Gasly ended this run by scoring one point at the Mexico City Grand Prix by finishing tenth.
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Pierre Gasly ended the season on a high however, as he finished 5th in Qatar after holding off Carlos Sainz in the latter stages, and 7th in Abu Dhabi.
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In June 2024, Pierre Gasly extended his multi-year contract with Alpine until at least the end of 2026, this time partnering rookie Jack Doohan in place of the Haas-bound Ocon.
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Pierre Gasly was disqualified from the Chinese Grand Prix after his A525 was found to be underweight.
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Pierre Gasly won two races in a row before his season was effectively cut short by the cancellation of the final round at Suzuka Circuit due to Typhoon Lan.
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Pierre Gasly finished second in the standings, half a point from clinching the championship.
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Pierre Gasly nearly finished on the podium in the second race, hitting the wall on the exit of the final corner while battling for third and limping across the finish line with major damage in fourth.