Pierre Jean-Jacques Gasly is a French racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Alpine.
68 Facts About Pierre Gasly
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Pierre Gasly won the 2016 GP2 Series championship, and finished as runner-up in the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 Series and the 2017 Super Formula Championship.
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Pierre Gasly moved to Red Bull Racing in 2019, before being demoted and replaced with Alexander Albon from Toro Rosso between the Hungarian and Belgian rounds.
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Regardless, Pierre Gasly achieved his first podium at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix, finishing second.
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Pierre Gasly won at the 2020 Italian Grand Prix while driving for AlphaTauri, securing both his and the teams' maiden victory in Formula One.
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Pierre Gasly would achieve another podium at the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix by finishing third behind eventual race winner Sergio Perez and Sebastian Vettel.
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Pierre Gasly was born in Rouen, France, to father Jean-Jacques Pierre Gasly and mother Pascale.
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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 would go on to become the GP2 Series champion that season.
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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.
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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.
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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 110 of AlphaTauri's 142 points, his highest ever points tally in a single season.
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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 French 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.